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    1. Broker 1 is stuck with cheaper data on somebody they know exists. The phone is in a static location switched on and proving location data.
    2. Periodically broker 1 asks other brokers for information on people who also are in the same place at the same time.
    3. Broker 2 says they have a match and sells it to broker 1.
    4. Broker 1 & 2 are able to resell much more valuable data on some privacy freak.

    Data isn’t some silo locked up. They have data sharing agreements allowing them to look at each others data and pay for transfers of useful information. Their profit comes from making initial collection agreements with the phone companies/banks/stores giving them sole access to raw data.

    At the end of the day OP wants to do all of this for his bank’s 2fa codes. The bank that knows who he is and where he lives due to know your customer laws.

    Just disable internet banking, paper statements, stops all data from being made in first place.

    Cash only phones only work from a privacy perspective if they are your single phone. As a secondary phone they’re just another number on your data broker profile.



  • That’s, not defeating anything.

    Your actual location is still being sold. They weren’t tracking you through sms in the first place. The phone company doesn’t need you to make phone calls to know where you are.

    Data brokers share data. All that changes is that you are now worth €0.015 vs €0.010.

    Your plan is a lot more effective if you just ask for paper statements from your bank and keep your cellphone at home. Or just turn off your cellphone and check for messages and VM like the ancients used to do on occasion.






  • It’s a massive oversimplification. But with captcha systems everywhere, they’re able to see you visit a newspaper, visit the journal site, try to download a journal pdf, and captcha is able to easily conclude that you’re a human and have automatic approval.

    Maybe if you’re going straight to a site for the first time today it would measure your single mouse click. And then from there tracking you across the Internet, assuming you’re online for maybe 6 hours like 99% of connected humans.

    Tor blocks all the fingerprinting, and anonymizes the ip address. Captcha is only able to see a computer arrive at the website requesting access. Captcha’s only tool is to give challenges which the bots are able to beat. So they make you run the challenge multiple times, seeing how long it takes your or randomizing how many times you’re willing to do them.

    Source: some tech YouTuber did a mini documentary about it. You could watch it yourself I assume.





  • Lol. There is no poisoning. They want to see where you are on the Internet. You’re just helping the ad companies get a better profile so they can sell you at a higher price. Not to mention they’re not idiots and can just exclude all the 20 clicks that happen in the first second of viewing a page, and look at the one click that happens after hanging out on a website for a while.

    If you want to poison their database, then actually use vpn/mullvad/tor, and give fake data on forms.


  • Google is more secure. Through email is more private. Theoretically.

    Google claims they don’t monitor the sign in with Google for their data collection. So signing in with Google means you authenticate with Google and then Google tells udemy you are who you are. Don’t cite me but I’m pretty sure Google’s authentication security is one of the best compared to almost all sites. And that’s before you sign up for their more advanced account protection. Since this is the privacy sub you should be aware that if Google is lying, then they’ll know every time you sign into Udemy.

    A middle ground is that Google knows every time your browser needs an authentication token for Udemy, so worse case they know your an active Udemy user when you get a new token every 30 days.

    E-mails is a one and done deal. Google knows you created a Udemy account. Google does not know how active you are as user (again they claim the sign in data is only for security and not used for advertising). Which is probably a moot point, their AI can read the Udemy “wow you beat your record this week” email vs the Udemy “we haven’t seen you in a week” email.

    Also wtf, get a proton mail account (yes I’m a shill for them).