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我刚刚卸载了 Pi-hole。这让我生活中有些不如意。我有一件非常紧急且繁琐的事情要处理，涉及到预约。我已经尝试了几个月，每天多次寻找可用的时间段，结果却一直没有成功，感到非常沮丧和绝望。这是一种高度官僚化、令人烦恼的流程。客服团队糟糕透顶，我完全陷入了困境。在尝试了各种浏览器组合、关闭扩展程序和我能想到的设备后，我最终错过了截止日期。昨天我随便用手机查看了一下网站，发现它竟然可以正常工作了。虽然这对我已经没有帮助，但确实有可用的预约时间。我抓狂地想弄清楚发生了什么。显然，这个网站依赖一些追踪器，而这些追踪器的数据被用来在表单请求中发送访问者的位置。这绝对是糟糕的工程设计。但无论原因是什么，我始终没弄明白，因为我禁用了浏览器扩展，切换了浏览器，测试了不同的设备，但我一直使用的是 Pi-hole 的 DNS。 Pi-hole 的整个架构就是“设置好就忘”，而我完全忘了它的存在。现代网络依赖于无数干扰你隐私的系统。你越是注重隐私，最终就越会伤害到自己的上网体验。有些人会屏蔽 JavaScript，屏蔽一切，或者专门使用 Tor。我有时觉得这些人为了安全而过得更加痛苦。我认为使用广告拦截器扩展就足够了。在隐私问题上，我们已经无路可退。现代网络的框架基本上是：同意或退出。几乎没有其他选择的余地。也许我很傻，也许我应该早点意识到这一点。但我认为，成为主流互联网的一部分，可能会让你的体验比那些高度关注隐私的人更加顺畅。

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I just uninstalled Pi-hole. It kind of ruined a little bit of my life.I had a very time-sensitive and bureaucratic thing to do. It involved making an appointment. I've been trying to find an available slot multiple times a day for months. I was frustrated and desperate.It's one of those highly bureaucratic, annoying processes. The support team is horrible, and I was completely stuck.After trying every combination of browsers, turning off extensions and devices I could think of, I eventually missed the deadline. Then I randomly checked the site on my phone yesterday, and it was working. There were appointment slots available (even though it didn't help me anymore).I tore my hair out trying to figure out what had happened.Apparently, the site relied on some trackers, and data from those trackers was used to send the visitor's location as part of the form request. Bad engineering, for sure. But whatever the reason, I never figured it out because I disabled browser extensions, switched browsers, and tested different devices but I was always using the pihole DNS.The whole architecture of Pi-hole is "set it and forget it"—and I forgot it was even there.The modern web relies on countless systems that interfere with your privacy. The more privacy-conscious you become, the more you end up hurting your own internet experience. Some people block JavaScript, block everything, or use Tor exclusively. I sometimes feel like those folks end up with a more miserable life at a cost of a secure one.I think drawing the line at an ad blocker extension is enough. We're cooked when it comes to privacy. The framework of the modern web is basically: consent or exit. There isn't much room for anything else.Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I should have figured this out sooner. But I think being part of the mainstream internet probably gives you a slightly more frictionless experience than being highly privacy-conscious ever will.

关注隐私会带来一些缺点。