Just a small heads up; ive noticed a uptick in links spread on Reddit, 4chan and even here to collaborative playlist from youtube, spotify and similar with very non or very few followers. All coming from new accounts.

Its a common way to fish for your personal data. They will make a new list and post it in only certain posts/threads and wait for you to subscribe with your account.

An easy way to protect yourself is by setting your phone or pc to open links in a second browser where you are not logged into anything. Set it to delete cookies on exit.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

      • deepfriedwater
        6·
        2 years ago

        I’ve been thinking about this for some time, embedding html in comments might be fun, but it doesn’t sound safe. Especially in communities where doxing could lead to really bad outcomes for some users.

        • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
          5·
          2 years ago

          A lot of HTML is definitely OK, but canvases and remote loading are murkier. If/when HTML is allowed again, this is something to consider, although we can still embed images even without HTML with ![](*url*); unless we only allow images hosted on lemmygrad.ml (and possibly some other trusted websites), we may just have to warn people that they should be using Tor or something similar if anonymity is important.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
      5·
      2 years ago

      Is Tor browser on the app store or are they all bullshit and you need to do it another way?

      • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
        5·
        2 years ago

        The iOS/Mac App Store? IIRC, not officially; there’s an unofficial (AFAICT) app for iOS called Orbot which makes all (?) traffic go through Tor, but I can’t vouch for it personally. For non-mobile OSes and Android, you should only download it from torproject.org (or build it yourself, if you’re a masochist)

        • panic
          61·
          2 years ago

          Tor Project recommends Onion Browser for iOS (link)

            • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
              6·
              2 years ago

              Also it probably isn’t actually a great idea to torify all of your connections (as I think Orbot for iOS does? Or maybe it can be per-app? I haven’t ever seen it on an iPhone myself.) including those from various apps that already know lots of things about you… it does hide your current IP from those services, but they already know what it was before so now they additionally know that you also use Tor.

              So yeah, better to use Tor Browser (or Onion Browser on iOS) so you know what you are and aren’t routing through Tor (and also benefit from its other privacy features like antifingerprinting and forgetting history/cookies/etc).

                • panic
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  They will want a phone number, selfie of your full face and/or photo of goverment ID. Very invasive.

                • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
                  41·
                  2 years ago

                  i disagree, i think it’s actually reasonable to decide you’d rather tell big social media sites that you’re a tor user than let them know where you’re physically located all the time (especially if you travel).

                  • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
                    31·
                    2 years ago

                    Right, I didn’t consider people who travel. That’s definitely one reason. (Although a person who’s concerned about privacy probably shouldn’t use any social media sites that require them to reveal their identity.)

        • ButtigiegMineralMap
          5·
          2 years ago

          I’m no techxpert like some comrades here, so yea I’ll probably just use the iOS one like a noob, thx for giving a good start point

    • AgreeableLandscape☭
      4·
      2 years ago

      100%

      This is what Tor was made for. Political dissidents. They probably just didn’t expect for us to diss on the West and not the designated evil countries.

      • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
        3·
        2 years ago

        I think it was originally made (by the Amerikan government) so the NSA and the like could access the Internet without revealing their location, and they released it publicly to increase the number of nodes and users. However, the current developers certainly seem to work on it for the sake of dissidents (as you said)