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  • @libBletchley
    6•4 years ago

    Avoid that link. rethinksecurity.io is ironically a CloudFlare site. And there’s popups. View it this way instead:

    $ torsocks lynx 'http://web.archive.org/web/20200622172714/rethinksecurity.io/posts/you-have-an-obligation-to-fight-for-privacy/'

    • @PanzerfaustOP
      3•4 years ago

      Thanx. Didn’t know that. “And isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?” by Alanis Morrissette comes to kind.

      • @libBletchley
        4•4 years ago

        You must have Tor installed, and I believe torsocks is packaged with Tor these days. You simply prefix lynx with torsocks.

        I’ve gotten that “lynx: Can’t access startfile” error before and I don’t recall the issue. I can only reproduce that error if I use the onion URL, e.g.:

        torsocks lynx 'http://web.archivecrfip2lpi.onion/web/20200622172714/rethinksecurity.io/posts/you-have-an-obligation-to-fight-for-privacy/'

        BTW, if you don’t have Tor, you can simply omit the leading torsocks.

        • @Zevena
          2•4 years ago

          i downloaded tor. do i need to type something before running it? i have tor and torsocks-git.

          • @libBletchley
            4•4 years ago

            Are you running linux? If you’re using a debian or ubuntu package manager, then it will install Tor so that it just works. That is, when you reboot your Tor backend will be running automatically. Try typing systemctl status tor to check. If it says “active”, it’s running. The next test is to run torbrowser-launcher and go to https://check.torproject.org/. If all that checks out, then you can simply prefix commandline commands with torsocks (it’s mainly just java apps that won’t work with torsocks).

            • @Zevena
              2•4 years ago

              thanks it working now. i did

              systemctl enable tor

              i think

            • @Zevena
              1•4 years ago

              oh i didnt enable tor

  • @k_o_tM
    4•4 years ago

    true! let’s start by not visiting this website

    yeah yeah, i know that writers in many situations don’t have control over how website is hosted bla bla bla

    • @libBletchley
      3•4 years ago

      Writers obviously have control over which website they use and add value to.

      And microbloggers obviously have control over which links they publicize. It’s poor etiquette to post walled-garden links outside of the respective walled-garden, which rubs the exclusivity in the faces of the excluded.

  • @SirLotsaLocks
    4•4 years ago

    I used to be one of those “It just personalizes my ads i dont see the problem” before I started to learn about what internet privacy really meant. Now I don’t understand how to get through to these people when I try to explain that it doesn’t matter if you don’t do anything illegal because privacy is a basic right at this point.