Shelley, excellent! You're a more patient hacker than I, you noticed that the redirect prefix can be removed. Maybe the fact that these mp3 links are downloadable is unintentional. If the redirector's job is to provide cloud-based content delivery, then these mp3s should only be accessible by the redirector servers. Proficient people like us keep finding these bugs in the matrix, but the bugs will get fixed over time, and it will get harder to bypass the tracking devices.
It is not a solution that proficient individuals like us can sometimes figure out ways to bypass the whole architecture of surveillance. I believe the web is currently anti-constitutional - it is structured to make the populace predictable. This undermines democracy. We're losing democracy by the minute - and we're doing so unconsciously, because thousands of webmasters think their use of Google Analytics isn't making that much of a difference. Even people working at Google do not see how this all adds up. There's no big conspiracy against mankind, there is just eight people who randomly ended up owning half the world - the greatest condition of injustice in history. We let technology do this, with a thousand little gestures like letting ourselves be tracked as we listen to political radio. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50 Bill Gates, Carlos Slim Helú, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison - they all made their wealth in the digital age. Add to that Warren Buffett who earns by managing other billionaire's money, then Amancio Ortega and Michael Bloomberg who may appear less digital - but I am sure somewhere in the details technology has its role in them becoming the richest beings on Earth in only a few decades. According to "The Super-Rich And Us", the 1970s were the most equal period in human history. We managed to get from the best conditions of life on Earth to the worst in only four decades. And you think tracking has little to do with all of this? Think harder. Will you remember my words when you realize what's happening? Jaromil, your tinfoil tool looks quite useful! It is in part replicating what Torbrowser does, but for those who insist on not using Torbrowser, tinfoil may be a step in the right direction. The problem is, it doesn't really matter much, if some individuals opt out of the surveillance game. When the population becomes predictable, democracy is lost. Without democracy, how is humanity supposed to tackle its epic challenges? -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
