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116 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 27 May \ on: Linux users of SN: What distro you running? Are you a "ricer"? tech AskSN

I'm very basic and not a ricer at all. it appeals to me, but I guess I'm worried that it such modifications will leak quite a lot of identifying info when using the internet. I'd love to be told that I'm misunderstanding this, though.

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115 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro OP 28 May

I'd have to look into it. Off the top of my head maybe apps can track via wallpapers but a higher risk online with websites/webapps would be things like screen size, resolution, user-agent and settings like prefer-darkmode etc.

I suppose it makes sense that if someone were to really hack away at their environment have have a lot of uncommon settings everywhere it makes them more unique and easier to fingerprint depending on the settings and whether it's exposed to and read by the web.

Maybe that's why GrapheneOS comes with a plain black wallpaper by default.

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