If a person wrote these recipes for others to consume, they'd probably be considered a criminal, maybe even a terrorist. But a company doing this to increase profit? meh. They just made a boo-boo.

Rocks are not permanent. They weather. The plastic portion of these rocks probably will too. The plastic pollution cycle will keep going.

for location data to be collected and collated and sold, this kind of thing is bound to happen. I'm not writing this to minimize the F.B.I.'s unethical and illegal practice to get around warrants. I writing this to point out that there are other agencies and groups that could be willing to do a lot worse with this kind of data. It'd be great if data brokers could be put of out business. And also if the whole practice of data collection for the sake of data collection would stop.

Thank you.

When I press f9 on Firefox, nothing happens at all. F10 gives me a menu options, like File, View, etc. Is there something in there to look for?

That link is paywall protected with Firefox as well.

Alpine and Slackware don't use systemd. https://itsfoss.com/systemd-fr...

Even if Meta or Facebook or whatever the company is supposed to be called goes bankrupt or folds, Zuck will still be around. Someone somewhere will be willing to give him the means to run another company which will probably do creepy shit in a different way, while turning people into products and making it sound like the company is enlightened and all that.

But before I get to N.C.S.U., I'm not surprised by a repressive govt. like [country]'s doing such a thing.

https://www.technicianonline.c...

' âoeThe main thing to understand about surveillance cameras is that they cannot keep you safe,â [Mike Nutt, a data experience manager at NC State Libraries] said. âoeA camera is not going to make you safer, and the surveillance technology is often misused, whether or not there are good intentions behind the technology. ..." '

I'm willing to bet just about every major university in the U.S.A. has similar surveillance too.

is terrifying.

I see. Even if it's using a different engine, that doesn't mean it's not being built with the privacy standards that Mozilla would use for their standard Firefox, or the privacy-focused Firefox Focus. Focus shows me reports of thousands of trackers it blocks.

He does it for a living as privacy and security consultant. The podcast is called The Privacy Podcast. Based on what he has described over the years, he was in law enforcement as well as had Top Secret clearance, so he's worked in fields related to privacy and security. Now I guess he helps people who are being harassed and/or stalked ,or are trying to avoid those things happening to them, and have the money to pay to someone who can help them avoid the harassment. His website is something like "inteltechniques"dot whatever.

This is a great response.

To add to Gaygirlie's point, there is a podcast called the Privacy Podcast. The host talks about how to improve privacy in several aspects of one's life. The steps the host takes for privacy with devices, as well as in other parts of his life, are far more than a lot of people care to go. They had an episode where the host described how to "sanitize" an Android device in order to remove as much as the crap as you can so that it doesn't track you near as much as the usual Android device does. The host emphasized that sanitizing the phone is much less labor intensive than replacing the OS, which does far more to improve privacy. But that is still a lot work. This is the episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-98...

For a long time, the host used iOS because of the company's policy of not selling your data. But because Apple requires you create an account to activate the phone that then is tied back to you, he has switched to an Android device that is rooted and has the Graphene OS running it instead of the default Android OS. (I don't listen to every episode and the info I give here is from several episodes back, so I may not be describing his most recently discussed practice.) As Gaygirlie points out, you're still going to be tracked at some level.

How much do you value privacy? If you value privacy over everything else, you may want something other than a smartphone.

Can you clarify? I have an iPhone (albeit an old 6) that has Firefox Focus. That does a lot of what you just described. And it lets me log into web mail and most of the other stuff I normally do in my browser.

After more thought, I don't think that the NAS actually keeps track of such things. That's probably more in the realm of the National Invasive Species Information Center.