Fair warning to any fellow degens visiting this country, maybe leave your gooncave at home. They took all my electronics for random inspection and interrogated me. Could have sworn I was getting deported, but they let me in in the end after a lengthy lecture about being "borderline admissible".

chtrd said:
Fair warning to any fellow degens visiting this country, maybe leave your gooncave at home. They took all my electronics for random inspection and interrogated me. Could have sworn I was getting deported, but they let me in in the end after a lengthy lecture about being "borderline admissible".

holy shit I'd have died if that would have happened to me xd
thank god I don't live in us

chtrd said:
Fair warning to any fellow degens visiting this country, maybe leave your gooncave at home. They took all my electronics for random inspection and interrogated me. Could have sworn I was getting deported, but they let me in in the end after a lengthy lecture about being "borderline admissible".

...why are you 'gooning' with your search history enabled in the first place?!

kyiiel said:
...why are you 'gooning' with your search history enabled in the first place?!

So I can refer to it later in the session, or during another session, of course.

Not that it matters, I don't know what kind of tech magic they use but they dug up random accounts on websites I haven't visited in over a decade.

chtrd said:
So I can refer to it later in the session, or during another session, of course.

Not that it matters, I don't know what kind of tech magic they use but they dug up random accounts on websites I haven't visited in over a decade.

Consider those devices compromised and backdoored. Destroy them and buy new ones, also change passwords for everything.

Remember, kids:
If you're going to the United States of Freedom or China, leave your electronic devices at home.
Maybe buy new, cheap ones just for the trip.

mantikor said:
Remember, kids:
If you're going to the United States of Freedom or China, leave your electronic devices at home.
Maybe buy new, cheap ones just for the trip.

Also applicable to Brazil.

Why would border control care? Is there an actual law on what furry porn you can have on your device, or were they just looking for an excuse to complain/couldn't get off their high horse?

https://www.missmab.com/arch.php I'm sitting here trying to remember which page had the rubber chicken at customs. She pulls out this entire bag full of random stuff like that.

People working at internationals or for governments (or contractors) have been just carrying burner phones and company laptops in foreign countries for years because of this. It can actually be a firable offense to not leave it at home and just check one out once in the country. For some jobs, you're literally told to destroy any device you had out of your sight while in hotels or if police touched it. Even people not in that sort of situation are told to just chunk it due to some recent levels of BS from places like UK/US/China. Get data off and then wipe and get rid of it. :( At the least, replace the motherboard. I'd be hesitant to even connect it to a network.

Seriously, over-extending themselves to step on people's rights should not be to the level of making the more paranoid conspiracy theorists look right.

chtrd said:
Could have sworn I was getting deported, but they let me in in the end after a lengthy lecture about being "borderline admissible".

Holy shit lol.
What did they tell you?

crocogator said:
Why would border control care? Is there an actual law on what furry porn you can have on your device, or were they just looking for an excuse to complain/couldn't get off their high horse?

Cub/young stuff is a little bit legally grey. On top of that it's something a lot of people assume is straight-up illegal. And then on top of that law enforcement isn't required to know law very in-depth. A bored officer wanting to power trip and scare someone sees something that falls into a category of "isn't that illegal?" and makes a Thing out of it sounds plausible enough to me.

I swear by, and occasionally at, Ccleaner and Bleachbit. Hard to look up a history that doesn't exist.

I use DuckDuckGo on my phone. Never had an issue while driving to and from Canada.

The Furry Bureau of Investigation strikes again

gloster_javelin said:
The Furry Bureau of Investigation strikes again

Furry Booty Influencer?

gloster_javelin said:
The Furry Bureau of Investigation strikes again

"We have reliable intelligence that you've been looking at wolfboobs."

indigohowl said:
I swear by, and occasionally at, Ccleaner and Bleachbit. Hard to look up a history that doesn't exist.

LOL, or just not collecting it in the first place...

alphamule said:
LOL, or just not collecting it in the first place...

Incognito mode or the setting to delete history after exiting are definitely better than a program that has had malware multiple times and is included all over the place as a PUP

chtrd said:
Fair warning to any fellow degens visiting this country, maybe leave your gooncave at home. They took all my electronics for random inspection and interrogated me. Could have sworn I was getting deported, but they let me in in the end after a lengthy lecture about being "borderline admissible".

Where were you travelling from?

donovan_dmc said:
Incognito mode or the setting to delete history after exiting are definitely better than a program that has had malware multiple times and is included all over the place as a PUP

I would say that using the same browser is a problem, too. There's been leaks between contexts on the same browser. I guess it depends on your paranoia level/threat model. In context of not having the history in the first place, incognito mode is great, though! Using a thin client or spinning up a live CD is getting into Ian Fleming levels. ;)

Yeah, CC is sketchy as hell, even when doing what it's supposed to. Very questionable decisions on design that can break things, because why not? TBF, PUP is another term for "stuff your boss/IT told you not to install" in many cases. It can include things useful for breaking out of their restrictions, too.

alphamule said:
TBF, PUP is another term for "stuff your boss/IT told you not to install" in many cases. It can include things useful for breaking out of their restrictions, too.

I think there's a pretty big difference between that and checkboxes in other installers that add bars, change search engines, or in my case have installed CCleaner before

That's the only way it has ever made it on my desktop, when I had it on my phone I vividly remember the playstore removing/disabling it for containing malware

donovan_dmc said:
I think there's a pretty big difference between that and checkboxes in other installers that add bars, change search engines, or in my case have installed CCleaner before

That's the only way it has ever made it on my desktop, when I had it on my phone I vividly remember the playstore removing/disabling it for containing malware

God, it evolved. I wonder if it even has anything to do with the original tool, or it's just the same name.

So it's like Quicktime and iTunes for Safari, got it! :D
"Would you like some toast?" - Toasty
Imagine if the default was make more toast, if you failed to say no.

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/ccleaner-malware Riiiiiight

alphamule said:
God, it evolved. I wonder if it even has anything to do with the original tool, or it's just the same name.

Last I heard it has changed hands numerous times so I would not be surprised if it is nothing like the original anymore