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💡 How does using an alias protect me?
Do you worry about giving away your email address? Sick of receiving emails you never signed up for? Do those unsubscribe links really work? By using aliases, you keep your real email off spam lists and away from sketchy companies you may not trust.

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When a form requires your email address, click the relay button to give an alias instead. We will forward emails from the alias to your real inbox.

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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode.

The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode.

According to the complaint filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, Google gathers data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/google-is-sued-in-u-s-for-tracking-users-private-internet-browsing-idUSKBN23933H

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52887340

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-data

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What private browsing does—and doesn’t—do to shield you from prying eyes online

Private browsing sounds like it’s keeping all your browsing and data private—but its name is misleading.

Many people look for more privacy when they browse the web by using their browsers in privacy-protecting modes, called “Private Browsing” in Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Apple Safari; “Incognito” in Google Chrome; and “InPrivate” in Microsoft Edge.
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These private browsing tools sound reassuring, and they’re popular. According to a 2017 survey, nearly half of American internet users have tried a private browsing mode, and most who have tried it use it regularly.

However, our research has found that many people who use private browsing have misconceptions about what protection they’re gaining. A common misconception is that these browser modes allow you to browse the web anonymously, surfing the web without websites identifying you, and without your internet service provider or your employer knowing what websites you visit. The tools actually provide much more limited protections.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90534809/what-private-browsing-does-and-doesnt-to-shield-you-from-prying-eyes-online

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DNS over TLS Lets Google Serve You More Ads

Like a lot of people, I hate advertisements. In my quest to remove ads as much as possible, I've installed an ad blocker in my browser. To go further, I've installed Pi-Hole to block ads for all devices on my home network. I've even setup firewall rules to re-route all DNS traffic through Pi-Hole. This setup seemed to work pretty well until I noticed I was still seeing ads in an app on my Android phone.

Sometime in the last couple of years Google added a Private DNS feature to Android and enabled it by default. Private DNS is really DNS over TLS (DoT), which is supposed to be a privacy feature that encrypts your DNS so your network operators can't snoop on what sites you're browsing. It sounds nice in theory, but when I'm at home, I am the network operator, and DoT has a side-effect of making my apps and devices ignore my carefully planned DNS settings, and bypass my (actually privacy enhancing) Pi-Hole ad blocker. The (surely coincidental) outcome is that Google can freely serve ads to my Android device.

You can disable the Private DNS feature in Android (for now). The bad news is that Firefox is enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which is a similar system, with similar drawbacks. Now, you have to change settings not only on each device's operating system, but you might have to individually configure every app to disable DoT/DoH. The next thing I'm going to try is blocking all traffic to public DoT/DoH servers at my firewall.

💡 Update 2021-03-22:
I learned that Firefox supports a temporary workaround for disabling DoH. You can setup Pi-Hole to point the "canary domain" use-application-dns.net to any IP address to cause Firefox to use normal DNS.

https://ericlathrop.com/2021/03/dns-over-tls-lets-google-serve-you-more-ads/

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the role of the private sector in the Israeli occupation economy

Who Profits was founded in 2007 as a project of the Coalition of Women for Peace, and became an independent Research Center in 2013. Our work addresses the economy of the Israeli occupation through three areas of activity: we maintain an online database of complicit corporations; we operate a free online information center; and we publish regular reports and updates on the corporate aspect of the occupation.

Through these, we shed light on the role of the private sector in the Israeli settlement enterprise, in economic exploitation of Palestinian and Syrian land, labor and resources, and in the apparatus of control over the occupied population.

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