Interesting, I didn't have this experience a couple of years ago. I wonder if they've just upped it to try and "automate" things more with the crazy amount of tourism they're suddenly getting. Also I'd be curious on which airport you went to, Haneda or Narita?

If the scans and such were in the states, I've requested opting out and no one really cared, they just said okay. Funny enough, it actually made me go through quicker than it was taking everyone who did the face scans, contradicting the sign claiming it's quicker.

I left like a decade ago when they asked me in a chat to verify my identity by answering a question asking what my first car purchase was. I've never given then my SSN or that kind of financial details, so the fact they had these questions and details about me terrified me at the time and I immediately requested to delete and close everything with them. Haven't used PayPal again since then.

Glad it's getting a little more light. Been trying to tell people this for a few years now lol. It's the reason I've stayed away from it since first learning of the tool and looking at the "source code".

I use iperf3 with Speedtest's servers, personally. But for a browser, yes JavaScript is needed.... But needing JavaScript files from like 20 different domains is typically a red flag for me on any site.

The NoScript list terrifies me a little though... Not sure what's going on there, but that's a lot of JavaScript lol.

For me, it's just that I don't want to have to turn the console on with plans to play for 1 hour only to be introduced to mandatory forced updates or show installation times that eat that entire hour away anyway. I just want to play my damn games, not to mention 100% offline if I so choose to.

I hate short variable names in general too, but am okay with them for iterators where i and j represent only indices, and when x/y/z represent coordinates (like a for loop going over x coordinates). In most cases I actually prefer this since it keeps me from having to think about whether I'm looking at an integer iterator or object/dictionary iterator loop, as long as the loop remains short. When it gets to be ridiculous in size, even i and j are annoying. Any other short names are a no go for me though. And my god, the abbreviations... Those are the worst.

Nice! Guess I can add it back to my wishlist and consider buying it soon! Been holding off on it too long

Just to get it out there... I checked this out about a year ago. It's not completely open source. The project consists of many executables and "pre complied dependencies" that don't appear to share matching checksums which may indicate modifications of some sort. Looks like a great tool, but I'm extremely skeptical of what's going on under the hood.

Hopefully they do truly open source it and prove me wrong, I'd love to give it a try some day.

Got mine connected to the network so I can take advantage of a local install of Emby, but blocked from Internet access, and every time it makes a DNS request (still blocked, but logged), it's added to a personal hosts file for the entire network just in case the kill switch doesn't work for some anomalous reason

Only 2 problems I have with Graphene personally is the need to give Google money, which the irony is just too much, and no option for rooting. Otherwise it seems like a pretty good OS overall. In the meantime, while I wait for those options to be more flexible so I can have full control, I just use a rooted lineage os with all the extra Google stuff (ntp, DNS, etc) stripped and replaced with my own self hosted systems.

I personally prefer NoScript not for just the privacy stuff, but for the security of knowing that an accidental click to a malicious site using some zeroday JavaScript exploit won't kick in like it would, had it not been default blocked.

My NoScript profile is also fairly populated with things I've trusted over the years, so it's really only new websites that require JavaScript that I have to worry about.

Maybe just me being over cautious, but just keeps me at ease, personally.