* Posts by Zzzzzzz

5 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Sep 2015

What if everyone just said 'Nah' to tracking?

Zzzzzzz

Re: But How ?

Just fire up a VPN server on your Pi and let your mobile/laptop/tablet connect to that whilst you're away. Extra points if you give your Pi-Hole DNS-Over-HTTPS (using cloudflare or similar) to stop your ISP also collecting and selling your data ;-)

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

Laptop-light GoCardless says customers' personal data may have been lifted

Zzzzzzz

Huh

Read this on here yesterday, got an email from them today, I'm not even a customer, just on their spam list... Idiots....

Germany calls halt to Facebook’s WhatsApp info slurp

Zzzzzzz

Not collected?

'According to Facebook, this gigantic amount of data has not yet been collected.'

The day after the WhatsApp update (where I declined to share my info) I got a friend suggestion on Facebook for someone who I only communicate with on WhatsApp. Huge coincidence or Facebook being uneconomical with the truth?

Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites...

Zzzzzzz

A little dig?

Hmmm, a little dig at the INQ and the sh*tstorm that followed their adblocking block perchance? Don't envy Carly Page right now. One site I'd have considered whitelisting but Taboola ads on a technology site?

VW’s case of NOxious emissions: a tale of SMOKE and MIRRORS?

Zzzzzzz

Re: Top Notch

Some? Most is more likely. No different to the flaps in performance car exhausts that stay closed until the revs are normal noise testing limits then open.