Oddbean new post about | logout
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 i would like to log out of my  @primal account on my Brave Browser

HOWWW do i do this šŸ¤£  
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 It is impossible. Definitely a feature I would appreciate. šŸ˜‚ 
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 It's not an account, you're signing messages using your private key, probably through a browser extension like Alby.

When you read your timeline, you're viewing public data that anybody can see.  This doesn't require any special privileges, I could do it without your private key.

If you set your Alby extension to confirm every time, then it won't sign messages without your confirmation. If you want to see another timeline, then you can switch to it by adding the users public key to a signing device.

I appreciate it's a different mind set, but unless you post something or pay somebody, you're not using an account at all.

But yes, a "Forget this feed", option would be useful šŸ˜‚ 
 
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 You have to reinstall your entier Linux OS and start fresh šŸ¤£ 
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 Are you using an extension like Alby?

If not, clearing application data should do it:

1. Visit primal.net
2. Right click on page
3. Choose "inspect"
4. Find the tabs: Elements, Console, Sources .....
5. Find the Application tab (you might need to click the >> button to see more tabs)
6. In the left section, choose "Storage" inside the Application section (after Manifest and Service Workers)
7. In the main section, find "clear site data"
8. Tick all the boxes underneath the button
9. Click the clear site data button.

If you wanted to be more surgical about it, it SEEMS like they keep all their data in "localStorage" only for now. 
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 You can do these steps for any website to make it forget about you.

Of course, this isn't foolproof agains servers surveilling you. They will use your IP address AND... a "browser fingerprint" where they run random things to time the speed of your hardware and sniff changes in configuration to bud a unique fingerprint that they can always recalculate. Like as if your computer was a signing device and they could always pull out your public key to identify you.

This is why I use Brave... Brave thwarts this fingerprint attack.

See: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/3-fingerprint-randomization/ 
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 delete all browser data for primal.net in browser settings  
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 You figure it out? Just did it by toggling it off.  Extensions ā€”> manage extensions. 
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 only way to do it is toggle off whatever nip-07 extension you are using 
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 Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not the only one with this problem šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ this should be a straight forward function