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[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

This is what I've been saying for months in the reddit privacy sub and to people IRL. Some people seem perfectly happy to just block ads so they don't see the tracking. Literal ignorance is bliss. Most simply don't have time or wherewithal to do the minimal work it takes to enjoy relative "privacy" online.

FWIW, any VPN where you can switch locations should do the job since the exit node IPs ought to get re-used. My practice is to give BigG a vanilla treat because my spouse hasn't DeGoogled, and leave anything attached to our real names with location A. Then a whole second non-IRL-name set of accounts usually with location B with NoScript and Chameleon. Then anything else locations C, D, E, etc.

Ugh... This all sucks.