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by jancsika 1522 days ago
> And then I got obsessed with finding out ways to avoid fingerprinting (it's nearly impossible).

At that point it's worth considering heading to a university library and reading the periodicals and books that are housed there.

Obsession = 3+ hours a day attempting to defeat tracking in a category of software designed to track you.

I live about 40 minutes away from a decent university library.

In your first six days of failing to avoid fingerprinting, I would have gotten nine hours of private, uninterrupted reading time.

Even better-- if I chose to read a newspaper in the library, I wouldn't be distracted by a cheapo "companion scroll" taped to the bottom by Silicon Valley types so their underlings can paste "Gellman-Amnesia effect ftw" during breaks in some desperate attempt to misdirect the angst that must come from polishing someone else's ad tech for a living.