How about Data-Collection Ban in All Firefox Extensions, Mozilla? How about that?

Chubbyemu already made a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGS07U-B98

Tl;DW: Absolutely not. See a doctor. You can literally cause the cancer to spread by cutting into it.

At that point wouldn’t it be better to run a hypervisor? Qubes maybe?

I know, but I don’t really know how I’d practically do that without using the cloud. I guess I could rent a safe deposit box and put my hard drive there but I feel like my lazy ass would promptly not bother to spend an entire day commuting to retrieve it, commuting home, syncing my server, and then commuting back.

I mostly just cobbled my setup together, but the main parts are a mini PC to act as a server and a USB 3 multi-bay hard drive enclosure. I bought one brand new NAS grade hard drive to store the things I can’t afford to lose, and repurposed any decently sized old hard drives I had lying around for storing stuff that already exist on the internet and that I don’t really mind losing if the hard drive dies. I also have an M.2 SSD for fast storage of files I’m actively using.

The specs of the server doesn’t matter that much for a NAS, but my server is pretty beefy by mini PC standards because it handles all my home server related needs, not just as a NAS. If you’re only using it as a NAS with maybe a PiHole (ad blocking DNS server) instance or similar in the future, you can can either get a lower end (or refurbished) mini PC or a higher end single board computer like a Raspberry Pi 5, depending on what’s cheaper at the moment.

I’m running Fedora Server on it with LUKS encrypted Btrfs volumes on each drive. After each bootup I have to SSH into the server and run a bash script I wrote, where I’ll enter my password and let it unlock and mount each drive. It’s clunky but I trust it more than the TPM which is proprietary. If you don’t care about encryption, you can just put a regular filesystem on your choice on the drives, and configure Linux to mount each drive on bootup by adding them to /etc/fstab.

For accessing the NAS, I can currently only do so from the local network which suits my needs, but in the future I could also set up a VPN server that I can tunnel into from the internet to access. I use Linux for all my personal computers so this probably won’t be applicable to most people, but I mount the NAS as an SSHFS volume and simlink folders I want to offload to the server. I chose SSHFS mainly because it’s an easy way to have an encrypted link to a network share that’s already supported by default. I wanted an encrypted protocol since it would defeat the purpose of encrypting the drives if the data just goes over the network with no encryption, but again, if you don’t care about encryption you can just use NFS or SMB (more likely SMB if you use Windows, since that’s what it supports natively). This also means that my work computer, which runs Windows, can’t even see the network share because it has no SSH access to my server and even if it did, Windows doesn’t support SSHFS anyway.

Last but definitely not least, I have one consumer grade hard drive with enough space to backup my main server hard drive and some extra, in a basic USB C enclosure. Every month I plug it in and sync the server drives over to it. This means if the server’s main hard drive dies, I accidentally rm -rf the server, I get one of the super rare Linux ransomwares, or my dog knocks the drive enclosure down, I don’t lose all my data.

This is probably way overkill in some ways and desperately deficient in others. For anyone else I’d definitely recommend picking a ready made open source NAS OS, which will usually have excellent and beginner friendly community made documentation, and support for Windows clients through SMB. I can’t recommend one myself because I don’t use them, but I’m sure others can.

A local NAS for storing all my files, especially if you consider all the value I deprived from Google and Microsoft by not engaging with their cloud bullshit. Even if you don’t, I paid like $500 CAD one single time for a 16 TB server hard drive and $300 for a consumer hard drive I’m using as an offline emergency backup. Meanwhile just 2 TB of Google Drive costs $139.99 CAD per year. I wasn’t able to find pricing for 16 TB but assuming it scales linearly (like if I had 8 2TB accounts since Google seemingly doesn’t offer any higher capacity for individuals), that would be $1,119.92 per year. Even factoring in the hard drive enclosure and the server itself, they’ve paid for themselves in literally half a year. That’s saying nothing of the kind of internet connection I would need to match the read speed of a mechanical hard drive on the local network. I could literally upgrade my entire house to 10 gigabit with the money I saved.

Adding to the other replies, right wing transphobes routinely hail the suicide rate as a badge of honour. They love joking about it and insinuating it should be higher. They’re really not quiet about expressing that they absolutely want trans people to kill themselves.

Just found this project called wireproxy that creates a proxy endpoint for Wireguard. You can then configure Firefox to use that proxy. Haven’t tried it but might be what you’re looking for?

I assume you can also install it on another machine in your home network and point Firefox to the port on that machine if you can’t install to your work computer.

You could also could try running Firefox in a Linux virtual machine if you have or can install virtualization software. KDE and I assume most other desktop environments have one click importers for VPN profiles. This also helps isolate browser fingerprinters which may also be why you’re seeing targeted ads.

Serious question: Why do y’all “hurt durr .ml” commenters even bother clicking on posts in our communities? Just block us.

The “true” cost is and has always been the millions of lives they ended but we as a society don’t seem to give a shit.

Seeing human slop from the 00s is such a breath of fresh air.

Says more about you if you think that’s an insult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIUae04Ip2c

Would be the best thing AI has ever done.

Interesting. We’re coming full circle to text being read as images. Like all text was before computers.

Honestly baffled why anyone still gives a shit about jewels. Literal useless rocks extracted by slave labour from France’s colonies with no industrial or personal uses, and formerly owned by a disgusting aristocrat as a way to show off his disgusting wealth.

Most jewels are just aluminum oxide crystals with colored inorganic impurities. Who cares if they’re stolen, just make more. The camera lens on your phone and the tube in an old school sodium vapour street light are jewels, and far purer ones than what you can dig out of the ground.

And they fall back to “you’re the problem for dividing the left” when someone validly criticizes them or points out they’re not the left.

Imagine thinking liberals are left wing or didn’t resist all the social advancements you mentioned right alongside the cons.

You deserve it by grossly understating what Nazis deserve. /s

sudo systemctl start snakelinuxd