Can someone help me understand this? If hundreds of thousands of people use a popular browser extension, how does that make it easier for you to be singled out among them? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this, can anyone help?

  • Emberleaf@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 hours ago

    never sign in to anything to further avoid getting tracked.

    You’re going to have to tell me how that’s possible on an everyday-use basis. How do you do your banking? How did you access Lemmy?

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t think it was meant exactly that literally. If you use online banking then of course you have to allow whatever they require for it to work. But for non-necessary services that have an account feature… any time you use those of course will have more of your information out there to sell and track.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Don’t use your Tor session to sign in. Also banks will probably not let you sign in via Tor.