Powered off isn’t enough. Take recent iPhones for example, even when “off” they remain in a low power state, phoning home periodically to report location and see if “lost mode” has been turned on.

Bring a burner, or nothing at all.

Their video player streams, not unlike YouTube. Sending the “the user paused” action can easily be explained by them wanting to tell the server to stop sending data when the client isn’t even attempting to view it.

Look, I get that you’re gung go about privacy, but you’re going to see damn near exactly these types of things with any API. Sometimes it’s nefarious, sure. But the vast majority of it is simply how web based software works.

I mean, just look at the majority of that data. What feed you’re in? You pulled the feed data from their server, they don’t need to gather that for tracing purposes. What media is open? Obviously they can track that when you pull the media info down from their servers. How long that media is? The sizing of the media? When that post was posted?

I’m seeing virtually nothing in there they don’t already have. This is just an API being fed information it needs to run. The fact that it’s all information they can already track is kinda proof of that. Why go to all this trouble tracking the information a second time?

99% of that is stuff they already know. What api endpoint is this?

This entire post is just a massive misunderstanding of how web software works. This is a normal, every day thing, and every single non static (and even sometimes static) site out there does this, or something parallel to this.

They don’t need to make api calls to track you, you’re logged in or at the very least connecting in a way that lets them follow your session.

They don’t even need api calls to fingerprint your browser, they can just throw that fingerprinting into every post when you go to get more content.

Bottom line: This ain’t it, chief.

I believe there are non surgical solutions to this? Though I do believe they are less effective, and you obviously may have already looked into it. Just thought I’d mention in case.

I’m pretty sure pi-hole has dns capabilities, as do alternatives like AdGuard home. Depending on your needs, staying with your current setup may be the most desirable option.

O.o Should I be concerned that this is surprising?

Word

It’s their own server, so they’d just… upload it.

How is it against the ToS? I’ve never bothered to look that deeply into their rules, but this is exactly what I do now >.>

Ngl this would skeeve me out. The chances of someone uploading CSAM while slim scare the fuck outta me.

That’s fair, though if you’re concerned to that degree I’d say a rando hosting it would be a silly move. That said, I realize that was a joke. ;P

But a Pi and recover the cost in under a year.

What is the population number for a handful of legumes?

If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat

To be fair, only one of these is a choice in many parts of the world.

Sure but there are just some things you can’t run over ipv6

Augmented? The current free diving record is over 800 feet. That’s just a human, doing human shit. No augmentation.

You’re inability to actually respond with anything more than “I can’t even! 💅” is really not helping your cause.

You’re quite literally claiming that the water pressure that comes out of your tap is enough to turn the human body into a “bio jam” instantly.

If you take a submarine down 100 feet and open the hatch, you’re not going to die (from anything other than drowning or maybe your superior strangling you.) You’re at around 3 bar or 43.5 psi.

That’s literally at the low range of pressure that comes out of your tap.

Even at 200ft you’re looking at pressure that’s just barely enough to cause damage to your house plumbing, but nowhere near the pressure needed to hurt a human.

At about 500 feet, you’re looking at pressure that would come out of a fire hose. Not fun to get hit by, but not necessarily lethal. Most injuries would be from being pushed into things, not the water itself. And you’re definitely not becoming a paste.

Are you under the impression that the moment the hatch opens, the water instantly normalizes the pressure inside the vessel? Because that is by no means what happens.

No, seriously. If you’re at or near the surface of the water, yeah there’s going to be some pressure, but nothing even close to the pressure needed to crush a human (ruling out water hammer and such since that wouldn’t reasonably be possible in such a situation.)

You’re aware things like the diving bell exist, right? And they deal with pressures many times the pressure we’re talking about here. Hell, you can free dive to the depths we are talking about, no equipment needed.

Wait, I’m confused. Assuming you were able to make the hole and seal some sort of connection a-la boarding in a spaceship in a sci-fi show, why would you be crushed in the process of boarding the ship?