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A true work of art...
When changing the timeframe in the script, is there a rule for how far back in time you can go? By this I mean, if we can change the timeframe so it places it ten years ago, that would not only be the ultimate middle finger to that tracking system, it would also prevent the small chance that the final timestamp would match someone else's purchase, causing a potential false accusation by the shops against someone totally innocent of truandry.I've not tested how far back you can go, but there shouldn't be a limit on it and ten years shouldn't be a problem at all. Just open ZGFX-Detrack.ps1 and change
$MinDays = 60
$MaxDays = 365to whatever offsets you like, $MinDays = 365 and $MaxDays = 3650 would give you random dates between 1 and 10 years before the current date.
@inversekinematics man that's incredibly creepy :/ sometimes internet feels like a huge mistake when hearing about the whole selling of private info and all that... creepy...
It's possible to keep data collection down but it requires giving up a LOT.
a) NO social media...none...zero...zip.
b) Use a reliable VPN.
c) No online payments.
d) In stores use cash or bank cards, NO credit cards.
e) Use a secure browser like Brave or Firefox with anti-tracking plugins.
f) NO Gmail or Yahoo email. Use a third party email service that provides privacy and security. I use Hushmail. There's another one out of Sweden that's also known for it's privacy.
g) Read TorrentFreak every day. They have many articles about privacy.SimplWall eh? I'll check it out.
I've used Tinywall ( https://tinywall.pados.hu/ ) for years.My internet computer still runs Win7 and I'm reluctant to upgrade because of Win10's well known tracking garbage. I use the de-crapifier when I installed it on my graphics computer and couldn't believe the crap that it ripped out. I also sanitized my Wife's laptop. Win11 is apparently worse. Windows is becoming nothing more that a virus and a sales pitch for it's own products.
Looks seriously geeky. Will this run on a Win10 system that's already installed? It eludes to being a tool that you use to create a custom install ISO and just leaves out the stuff you don't want installed. The page looks great but there's no real information on it telling the average non-programmer what it is. This would turn a lot of folks away. I'm intrigued enough to want to stumble through it.
I've been reading the documentation and it looks to be straight forward. The nomenclature is what threw me off at first.
I'm rebuilding my desk right now by converting it to a standing desk and have disassembled the graphics workstation. I hope to be operational in a week or two (as long as my plan works out) and will go it a go then.
Thanks for the pointer!People started doing this to Sims 4 CC a year or so ago and it raised awareness in the community, I wouldn't ever imagine this coming to DAZ content as well.
I'm sorry are those altered PDFs new or known to everybody? I'm confused because I followed the guide here, but those points aren't considered in it. Or is this new?
- EndUserLicense.txt (root of the zip) and additional product descriptions in .TXT format
now are replaced by freshly generated PDF files.- Unclear if they also alter existing PDFs (parts of documentations), I can not check this,
I don't have bought products with that.- Those PDFs are created immediately before download starts - like the .dbf from Renderhub
with current local time stamp of the download server- The PDFs contain an unique identifier for the user (downloader) account! Hidden in the
PDF's metadata!All (!) image based files are modified by a new time stamp!
Thumbnails (.png / .duf.png / .png.tip), textures, product cards (support data, also those
for shape morphs in /data tree), additional images for documentation... they all get the
server time stamp at time of download!- Folders affected by those modified image files also may get this new time stamp!
- Those PDFs are created immediately before download starts - like the .dbf from Renderhub
with current local time stamp of the download serverThis was already known about.
- The PDFs contain an unique identifier for the user (downloader) account! Hidden in the
PDF's metadata!All (!) image based files are modified by a new time stamp!
Thumbnails (.png / .duf.png / .png.tip), textures, product cards (support data, also those
for shape morphs in /data tree), additional images for documentation... they all get the
server time stamp at time of download!Metadata in the .pdfs is a new one AFAIK. I think the image timestamps might be as well.
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