Rural areas tend to also have a lot of bars with parking lots but no sidewalks

Lmao there was no hopping whatsoever, what the fuck are you talking about?

That comment was highly focused and directly addressed yours. You just don’t know shit lol

I mean the “narrative” is the reality that the US (and I assume Canada) is hopelessly dependent on car infrastructure. If Mexico isn’t as dependent then it makes perfect sense not to group them all in the same category.

It’s weird to call the category NA (excl Mexico) rather than just saying US+Canada. But that’s not cherry picking.

Yeah I’ve seen a doctor like 3 times in my adult life maybe.

The cynical turn of phrase people do is infuriating too

“Healthcare plz”

“Okay we’ll guarantee you have health insurance” [now force everyone to pay the companies that are partially responsible for fucking everything]

I don’t want health insurance I want health care

It’s been a few years since I was invested in this topic, but I think the “meta” for reconciling the tension between blocking tracking and unique fingerprinting was to, in some cases, spoof information rather than outright block it.

Tor browser does that by default, though a few years ago when I tried to use it as a daily driver it was too tedious thanks to cloudflare.

Most of my research regarding browsers was focused on computers. Now that Firefox mobile can run extensions some of this might be mitigated that way.

Blocking JavaScript unfortunately makes you super unique but the tradeoff is probably worth it imo. I don’t want every random site I visit to immediately run a bunch of code, especially third party nonsense. Even if it makes my traffic stand out.

For most threat models I suspect unrestricted JavaScript is more dangerous than the potential for fingerprint-based tracking. Or at least JavaScript is very likely to leak multiple unique data points, whereas a “blocks JavaScript flag” is just a single unique identifier.

Sandboxing and siloing can also mitigate some of the risk, and is relatively painless once implemented.

All of it comes down to threat model and motivation. You can probably get like 70% better privacy/security for 20% of the work, which is a good standard for a typical usecase/person. Install ublock, disable some of the higher risk and less useful tracking (websites don’t need my fucking battery and gyroscope).

Diminishing returns start to hit hard, in part due to the passive fingerprinting / active tracking tension, due to cloudflare, due to everyone around you that doesn’t give a shit. Anything on the other end of the risk spectrum should just be done without a smartphone in the vicinity, if possible.