[nukeop]

I'd rather be surveilled by the Chinese government than Google/Facebook and other FAGMAN companies.

At least I don't live in the Chinese jurisdiction, while the tech giants do whatever they can to slip their tentacles into every website you visit, even if you don't do any business with them and actively fight their spyware. The Chinese government doesn't want to sell me anything either.

[gruez]

just don’t do anything that they can blackmail you for...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590585

[throwaway2048]

Id rather be surveiled by neither, and a VPN does very little to prevent stuff like browser fingerprinting.

[nukeop]

Just block scripts and randomize the useragent, here's your new fingerprint every minute.

[throwaway2048]

and be the one very strong signal from $VPN_IPRANGE that has a random wacky user agent, along with disabled scripting (and a quite comprehensive CSS fingerprint to boot).

[nukeop]

My fingerprint is different every minute. That "very strong signal" is discarded by every surveillance engine as useless noise.

[aasasd]

There are like three dozen factors in a web user's fingerprint, of which the user agent is just one. And no, the rest aren't all controlled by JS.

[throwaway2048]

you don't know that.

[exergy]

> Just block scripts

And make the web nigh-unusable.