Good thoughts, tyvm. That all make sense to me. I am far from an expert too. But I believe you are right, it would require more xmit power from the ALPR, and people would detect it easly with an RF detector.

You succeeded in changing my guess, towards less likely they are harvesting TPMS ids.

difficult to protect from interference

That’s a fun idea. Some kinds of RF jamming are very illegal and will get the FCC (*) all up in your business, like that guy running a cell phone jammer from his car a while back. But obv it’s legal to xmit on wifi type frequences. Everybody’s wifi AP does that. I’m sure there are power limits and stuff. But maybe what’s legal, would still be enough to frustrate a Flock portable device scan for gizmos using those freqs.

If you’re the only one doing it, you’d stick out like a sore thumb. But if 1 in 4 cars were doing it…

NAL so I can’t comment on legality there. Or even on the practicality. But it does make me wonder.

(*) Or your country’s equivalent, the ppl who regulate the radio spectrum.

I just tell people I was out of focus when I was born, and doctors weren’t able to correct it.

Standalone devices. MP3 players. Cameras. GPS units. Fitness electronics. All disconnected, except a local USB port. No wifi, no network of any kind.

None of them seem likely to disappear tomorrow. But given the push to put everything from your toothbrush to your vacuum cleaner online and harvest data from it, IDK how long until offline standalone electronics are no longer made.

IMO the same concept as Cris_Citrus makes here, applies when ppl say “your address was always in the phonebook”. Or how a film photo stuck in a drawer in Joe Sixpack’s house is different from a digital photo analyzed by sophisticated machine learning algorithms by dozens of data brokers to build a dossier of your life. Even if in both cases “someone could always take your picture in public.”

Scale, and ease of access, have real impacts. Even if technically, the data was “always available.”

False equivalences, all of 'em. But pro-surveilence advocates love making them.

because a restaurant doesn’t want to get plastered all over YT or IG either.

True. I’ve even heard of cases where a “food influencer” demands a free meal from a place. If they won’t acquiesce, they threaten terrible reviews on their socials. Now maybe influencer has 73 followers so who cares. But maybe they have 73M and restaurant takes a drubbing on social media. I don’t envy the restaurants either TBH.

ask her yourself or a staff member

Staff member is a good idea, thx. I didn’t think of it. I did think of asking her myself. But that turns me from a rando in the b/g, to an object of ridicule on her stream. Fuck that.

Although someone else in the threat mentioned too, it can pose difficulties for the restaurant too.

same difference

It is very much not the same to me.

Kinda… Different tho! The restaurant prob doesn’t u/l their security cam streams to youtube or IG.

It might make it to databrokers, although some are just closed circuit and don’t make it off-prem. Depends on the place. But honestly I’d rather be on the restaurant’s security system, than behind some yapping influencer. And I’d rather be a rando in the b/g, than featured as hey get a load of this clown asking me to stop streaming in a public restaurant.

Reminds me of how Zuck spent $110M buying all the homes around the one he wanted, to maintain HIS privacy. And then he had the city change zoning codes so he could stitch all 11 houses he bought into a single private compound.

I know I’m going out on a limb here. But I betcha almost nobody reading this thread can drop $110M buying out a whole neighborhood to get privacy, and then spend a couple years of heavy equipment and crew time to rebuild it.

Extreme example? Yah. But lots of smaller examples too, down here at normal ppl levels of money. You want privacy? It’ll cost. Privacy becomes a luxury for the well off.

I’m not 100% sure but the original link says

The audio processing did not record people through their microphones. Instead, it generated and processed an inaudible signal, then measured small, repeatable differences in the way a browser and device handled it.

Oh! They have a link to this -> https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html

Which makes it sound less scary, and not very effective against FF with fingerprint protection turned on. FF is working on mitigating it. Maybe Chrome and Safari can protect too. But it’s also not quite a nothing-burger. Even a weak signal, is useful b/c lots of weak signals combine into a strong signal.

Everything contributes to the fingerprint. Even if everyone falls into say 2 buckets, that’s still one bit you didn’t have before.

Guys I might be stuck in a time loop. There’s a Log4j2 remote execution exploit. Toy Story is one of the highest grossing films of the year. Foldable phones are in the headlines. Serena and Venus are playing doubles in the US Open.

IZat

Article about -> https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2023/04/27/are-qualcomm-chips-snooping-on-you-no-not-quite/1100433

Situation seems muddled. Article claims its opt-in, but who knows, I don’t put much trust in claims like that. The idea of a local service to reduce power reqs of a GPS radio seems OK. But this allegedly sends loc data back to Qualcomm, which seems unnecessary. Mfgs like to muddle everything up so features you want, get tied to things you don’t.

Faraday pouches are our friend.

On top of the privacy effects, short form video (SFV) is degrading everybody’s cognition.

High-frequency SFV use was consistently associated with attentional disruption, reduced executive functioning, and emotional dysregulation. Several studies reported increased anxiety and compulsive use, though findings were heterogeneous.

And a firehose of mis and disinformation.

TikTok Is a Misinformation Minefield.

Lots of reasons to help our friends and family get off it. Mental health effects, targeted disinformation, and privacy loss.

i think its only if google thinks you’d actually like the video and it proly can tell if youre trying to possion the data.

I’m not too sure. For one, I do sometimes watch cooking vids for real :). But I can try with some other topics too, which I watch normally. Be an interesting experiment.

I suspect something else TBH. But I couldn’t guess about what since IDK anything about your setup and env etc except for your post.

OP, I’ve tried your experiment with Invidious + Tor browser. I’ve watched some vids about cooking. Then restarted Tor. Went back to the same Invidious instance. It didn’t show me any of what I watched. I got just the default vids for that instance.

Hard to say what might be doing that for you. So, afraid I can’t be of much more help about that :(

just how to get webisites to stop knowing everything i do across multiple identities and every device i use

It’s very hard. Unfortunately. You’re up against the best data scientists in the world. And up against a legion of identity brokers. Believe me they are very very clever. If there is ANY way to deduce ppl’s idenity they will find and exploit it.

I won’t say it’s impossible to do. But it’s one of those probs, where you have to block every method. They only need a single method you missed. On top of that, many sites won’t even let you in at all, if the identity broker server they use behind the scenes can’t peg your IRL ID with a threshold of confidence.

I feel like Lord Vader has… other ways… to get in touch.

In one video, a student even filmed himself dropping his smartphone into one of the pouches that schools use to confiscate phones during class — suggesting that smart glasses are being used by students in spaces where teachers are seeking to limit electronic devices.

Gee! Who could possibly have seen that coming… I mean, clearly there was no way for anyone to imagine such a possibility!! And certainly not a company who employs teams of psychologists!

Glassholes aside -> top photo is a stock image. But I’ve seen lots of times where well meaning ppl try to anonymize a photo with black-bars over eyes like that, or a blur that can be reversed like spirals or w/e. Maybe that was effective long ago. Today, with such powerful FR tech, that won’t do the job.

I want to see a huge culture shift. Where we have huge peer pressure against ever u/l’ing somebody without their consent. Ever.

A shame they don’t ship to or build in Canada

I was about to say “Yet. US & Canada cooperate on car regulations, so it’s trivial to support both markets”.

But, web says the tariff situation got in the way, and Slate has no plans for it. Ugh. That sucks :(. Hopefully sanity will be restored eventually, and it’ll become possible again.

I want a better timeline please.

Are you in a hurry?

If not, you could keep an eye on Slate Auto

With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today’s connected cars.

Don’t most of those systems turn the user pw into a salted hash? I suppose that would limit the effective pw length, given random pw’s. Like if the hash was 128 bits or w/e, lots of 256 bit pw’s would hash to the same value.

But IDK how big those hashes are. Maybe they’re huge?