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[-] [email protected] 179 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are still lots of tracking parameters it doesn't remove. It does not bypass redirects like doubleclick.net/redirect?url=..., either.

I'd prefer if it worked with personal and community managed filters, like every good adblocker does now.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It'll warn you before you go to shit tracking redirectors though.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Common Firefox W

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

there's even an extension to do that automatically, clearurls if i recall correctly

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I didn't know about that! I always use Ctrl+C of course. I'll look out for this next time

[-] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago

I guess I really love everyone because I've just always done that

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Me too, but just to screw over Amazon's social graph making.

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 15 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I throw garbage in there just got fun ☺️

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's less love and more spite.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you'd like).

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you're on lemmy.world, it's here: https://lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you're not, it's available on the [email protected] community.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

even on the federated web, you can't escape the screenshots

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Let's just be thankful they actually took a screenshot and didn't take a picture of the screen with their phone.

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[-] brbposting 13 points 5 months ago

…seems a bit crazy. …

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously …

Tee-hee :) Point taken though!

No way to cross post is there?

Also would be neat to have a blended account feature - infosec.exchange is defederated from sh.itjust.works even though we’re OK I swear. Might be time to raise that discussion again.

Anyway only seeing this because of the repost. And for the visually paired (easy of seeing?) (not blind?), screenshots of text can sometimes have a je ne sais quoi. A bit of text fitting just so in the right font, maybe a light background breaking the monotony of one’s dark mode…

Screenshots, surprisingly resilient in $current_year. One day Lemmy could autotranscribe screenshots and include original post date, platform, author… maybe how deep fried it was too.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, cross-posts would be a new post from me, rather than the original from e.g. George Takei, which isn't ideal.

I hadn't really thought about defederation between servers running both Mastodon and Lemmy. I guess that post wouldn't show up on sh.itjust.works (I'll have a look if anyone subscribes from there)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly I feel like a screenshot of a toot is better than just seeing a Lemmy-formated toot.

Maybe a cross-post feature which generates what the screenshot effectively shows but formatted in html to match mastodon formatting with functioning links that's hosted on the instance the Lemmy community is in to avoid federation issues?

Edit to add: on the other hand I regularly forward the screenshots to friends on other platforms, so I'd either screenshot the thing created to stop screenshots or need a share/download button to create a image because I know my friends ain't interested in clicking a wierd fediverse link to view a 2 sentence joke they may or may not find funny

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Neither of those links load in Voyager, so I think a screenshot is great.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What's happened for you there isn't a problem for screenshots to really fix - it's whatever frontend you're using not giving lemmy's backend enough time to fetch a remote community. This happens loads - I even made a little video about it the other day: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13703060

When you clicked on [email protected], it did actually go through to dbzer0, and Voyager has no trouble with the community once it's though. A little ironically perhaps, but here's a hastily combined screenshot showing it at dbzer0 and on Voyager:

edit: and the link to the post of course: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13850191

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[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 27 points 5 months ago

?utm_source=my-crush

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

and checks it still works

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I actually remove stuff like the "feature=sharing" nonsense from the end of youtube memes I share pretty regularly

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

And send bank account and phone numbers in a separate message for easy copying

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Full format addresses so they automatically turn into links

No: 123 Main St Yes: 123 Main St, Burgerville, TN 70302

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Oh no I think I'm sending some people the wrong kind of message... I didn't mean to...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

it's ok. i figured we could never be more than friends

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Firefox: Rt-click - "Copy without Site Tracking"

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I change it by adding profanities

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Will the links still work? This gives me ideas

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 5 points 5 months ago

They're just for marketing stats, to track where people are visiting from. I've had to add them in the past (for work) to differentiate marketing campaigns, links in emails vs SMS, etc

Look up "UTM parameters" for a full breakdown of how these are used.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yep, they'll work.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I guess I love more people than I care to acknowledge

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

jeff, you are mixing love with OCD... again

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I feel so seen ❤️

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you set URLCheck as a default browser and you can automate the process of making people think you love them

[-] Cheradenine 6 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

While fdroid is great for discovery or if you're running without Play Services, I'm using the Play Store anyway so I'll use that if they're on there or if not then Obtanium to get them from the source repo.

Isn't there some weirdness with signing apps on fdroid? A bit beyond my security knowledge when I last saw it discussed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

F-Droid compiles apps from source by itself, without blindly trusting that the APK provided by the developer actually came from the source code. After independent compilation, one of two things happen:

If the app uses reproducible builds, then F-Droid verifies that its own compiled APK matches byte-for-byte with the APK provided by the developer. If they match, F-Droid distributes the APK signed with the developer's signing key, same as Play Store does (except Play Store doesn't verify anything).

Otherwise, F-Droid distributes its own compiled APK signed with F-Droid's signing key.

In either case, F-Droid guarantees that you get an app that matches the source code exactly.

None of this process should matter to you as a user, and it's all fairly transparent from a user's perspective. F-Droid gives you certain guarantees and internally enforces these guarantees, while Play Store does not.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Plus, if the app supports reproducible build, fdorid will just delivers the app to you via the developer's signature. So it is just a additional verification without adding any trusted party. App signing section https://f-droid.org/docs/Security_Model/

fdroid also manually inspect the source to make sure nothing funky is going on. But of course that cannot be absolutely through, because the time and workforce constraint.

Finally, fdroid has updated to index v2 which improves the security of index v1, specifically:

  • As of index-v2, files from the repo are verified based on SHA-256, including icons, screenshots, etc.
  • index-v2 uses any algorithm supported by apksigner and android-23 and newer, and relies on OpenJDK’s and Google’s maintenance of the currently valid signing algorithms. When index-v2 was launched, the signature algorithm in use was SHA256withRSA and the digest algorithm was SHA-256. index-v1 is signed by SHA1withRSA. As of this writing, SHA1 are still considered strong against second pre-image attacks, which is what is relevant for index JARs.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Security_Model/

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[-] brbposting 3 points 5 months ago

On iOS, I use the Clean URLs iOS shortcut to cleanup links & remove tracking parameters.

Credit: mastodon.social/@DavidBlue

I want to create a version that adds a check for a YouTube link and creates a Piped.video link too - save me a few seconds each time.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Nice to see an app for it.

Android 13 and above comes with a clipboard editor which is super handy. I just edit all my links in that.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Unless of course you want them to look at something specific that the query string automatically selects for them. It'd be pretty confusing in that case if you removed the query string and they're just looking at thousands of entries in a table or something.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

see a few that just paste the google news links. we can never be friends

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

my big sister does this. i love her so much

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Does stack exchange have a mastodon instance?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is my love language

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Microblog Memes

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