Rob Braxman
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Internet Privacy
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How to Handle Trackers (and how not to handle them)

Those in the beginning stages of privacy planning will start looking at the more obvious low hanging fruit in the Internet privacy infrastructure. There are stores identifying the trackers in apps or use an app like Exodus to target so people think this is the most important thing to focus on.

This shows a complete misunderstanding of what makes the Internet dangerous. Exodus is useless. And I will tell you the bad news. It is impossible to stop all the trackers. In fact, some trackers will not leave a trace. For example, there's Browser Fingerprinting.

I don't know why other privacy or security people don't teach this properly. And it is is likely because they don't really understand what's going on.

I will tell you the correct way to manage trackers and also will tell you not to obsess about this. What you need instead is a proper understanding and then you will find that trackers are easy to beat. I'll teach you how.

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How would the OS makers then build in client-side scanning? Let's tackle a theoretical project to do this on your favorite operating system (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android).

This would be how I would do it.

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July 10, 2025

@robbraxman I've been watching you for a few years, but your latest video is the best. Keep going! I am really glad we still have content creators like you!

May 20, 2025

@robbraxman Lunduke have a main page(lunduke.com) where he post links where people can follow. Maybe you should do one like this.

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BLE mesh for nostr notes when the internet is down

https://github.com/KoalaSat/samiz

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