YSK: Browsing "ALL" at work might get you pulled into an office, even with NSFW off.

Don’t use company computers for personal stuff, it all gets logged and can be used against you at the very least as evidence that you weren’t working come performance reviews.

Browsing personal sites, especially social media, on a work computer is insane

Just don't use a work computer for anything but work. Use your personal cell phone and don't use their wifi.

Stay off company resources when using technology for personal use.

Why would people not just use their phones? I would never browse any social media on a work computer.

I use my own Internet for my phone. No point messing with work Internet unless necessary.

Why do people use work computers anymore when cellphones exist?

Pro tip: Don't do not-work stuff on work owned hardware.

Rough day at work today, OP...?

Never attach a personal device to a company network!!!

I imagine the socialist/ML and pro-union content also plays into this (speaking as a socialist/ML and extremely pro-union, mind you). Corporations hate and are terrified of any sort of dissidence that threatens their profits and will absolutely police your activity on it. Weirdly enough Western "freedom of speech" doesn't seem to extend to this kind of stuff in practice, can't imagine why.

Why in the heck would anyone browse any social media on your company machine?

That's the whole reason I left Reddit because it forced me to have to use Reddit on a computer and it's one of the first things I remind new hires not to use social media on company property, it's always monitored from keyboard to Internet connection.

Good lord people...

On phone, use LTE. On computer set up a cheap Linux shell on your vsp of choice. Then use an ssh socks proxy for your browser.

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

YSK even the local tab on any instance will load many transcluded images from other instances.

if you're worried about your employer monitoring for suspicious hostnames, you're rolling the dice every time you do any personal web browsing (outside of sites that don't transclude 3rd party images, like wikipedia, and, ironically, facebook...).

The other day I was on all and there was fucking porn without any NSFW filter on it on some cumsluts community, no co-workers were around thankfully but it was a good wake up call that all is not a place you wanna be unless you are at home.

I'm glad my work doesn't care what I do online as long as I get my shit done. It's not the highest paying job in the world, but perks like that keep me there.

The wifi at my work won't let me browse Lemmy at all. I have to enable a VPN on my phone to browse, or go to mobile data.

Better idea.. you could work. Or use a VPN on your phone.

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Well, you should be using a VPN for privacy anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem.

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You guys aren't using DoT (DNS-over-TLS) or DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) ??

I find it crazy that you can get in trouble for browsing the wrong websites. It's illegal where I live to track people's computers.

My company uses zscalar. It's essentially a company endorsed MitM attack and for that reason alone I don't use the work laptop for anything but work.

When I used to work in an office, I'd always use wireguard to tunnel my traffic on my phone back through my home IP. Got to use their wifi and still maintain my privacy

This is even easier now with tools like tailscale

And this is why I always use a VPN on my phone.

This does not apply for most european users. Source: I am the one who gets these requests and anyone who isn't a judge gets jack shit. Go pound sand. Anything else would be illegal under privacy and work laws. Even police wont get ANYTHING (judge will reject it) if the crime in question isn't worth at least 2 years of jail time.

Suspected malware domains just get blocked, no further action will ever take place.

What's the name of the instance that uses ransomware name?

How? The client should only be talking to your home instance. Your home instance does all aggregation for you. Only Lemmy instances talk to each other and clients talk to one instance. That's how federation works.

Good to know, thank you for posting this. I'll keep this is mind to avoid any issues.

And to everyone else wondering why you would use company computers to browse the Internet instead of just using your phone, some jobs out there do not allow you to do so. My employer for instance, has banned using phones everywhere except for the break rooms and offices. We can still have our phones on us for emergencies and take phone calls, but otherwise we are not allowed to have them our. If we have to take a phone call we have to exit the work area and move to a nearby break room to do so. We have been specifically told (in writing) to use the computers instead when there is nothing to do. We have even been told YouTube is fine as long as there is no work. Because of that, I do a ton of personal web browsing on company computers since my job is so feast or famine so having information like this is helpful.

VPN 4tw.

When I read stuff like this, I feel there is a whole part of Lemmy that I am totally clueless about.

I have no idea even where the areas that OP is talking about even exist, and with the way the servers seem to go down all the time or I need to reload a browser, it makes it that much more difficult to wander around and get to know the place because you never know if a certain page is empty because its really empty or it just didn't load correctly.

Yeah I get domain blocked popups sometimes while browsing at work. I mainly see that it's happening for lemmy.today.

Yeah I was gonna say, don’t be browsing anything non work related directly on your work machine. I usually VPN to home then browse through RDP. If your work has screen monitoring software just browse from a personal device.

I browse on my phone using data, I refuse to use company computers or wifi for anything that isn't work related exactly for this reason.

Serious question: there isn't any tracking software installed on my work computer, and I use a VPN browser extension. Is it still possible for my employer to see what I'm doing?

Even if you stick to subscribed, there's nothing stopping people from spamming NSFW stuff in the comments and in posts except for the mods/admins though bad actors can always just register more accounts on any federated instance.

Hoping we see more improvements to mod tools/abilities.

Gah!!! Ffffuuck me I forgot about that. I take business calls on my phone through work WiFi and maybe I use my personal phone on breaks and such.. woopsie. So how bad does it look if I used an app or even a game without turning off wifi?

i only browse on my private phone which is not connected to wifi

I always forget that most people are on a computer at work a lot of the time.

I couldn’t stand that. I need to be outside being violent at boards and steel or I go insane.

That's why you use the guest WIFI

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