What's Not So Funny Is That I Read About Some Of This Years Ago And Talked About It At Length With Many

What's not so funny is that I read about some of this years ago and talked about it at length with many of the people around me, yet still forgot about how scummy data mining can be with this stuff.

Glad no one in my family believes in trying any of this stuff because of our weird records.

Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the Ancestry.com

I will take every opportunity to warn people against these genetics testing “services.” They are huge data mines and prospecting firms, and if you are Indigenous, your submission may be their way around tribal moratoriums against these sorts of collections.

Plus, they don’t mean anything as far as Indigenous identity.

For all the Firefox homies out there

blog.mozilla.org

Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog

Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most pr

Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you — giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.

This approach strikes the balance between eliminating the worst privacy properties of third-party cookies – in particular the ability to track you – and allowing those cookies to fulfill their less invasive use cases (e.g. to provide accurate analytics). With Total Cookie Protection in Firefox, people can enjoy better privacy and have the great browsing experience they’ve come to expect.

anyway switch to Firefox

Yeah, I’ve seen it.

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

I would love to do this one summer

was just taking a quick look around my dashboard and account settings when the delete account popped up and boy oh boy did it look tempting.

(my thumb almost moved on its own to press it)