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I'm tired of hiding from the big techs in a pile of privacy gadgets. How so? They fight back, with dark patterns. Ruleset works today may not work on the next
by methou 7y ago
I'm tired of hiding from the big techs in a pile of privacy gadgets.
How so?
They fight back, with dark patterns. Ruleset works today may not work on the next; you can update the rules; they can make your update break things. I can see that on some major Chinese e-commerce sites, blocking tracking scripts may cause search function to stop working, or you cannot comment because the submit button failed to load.
It's difficult to know, I use uMatrix, and often run into questions like what is this <cryptic.cloudfront.net> domain doing? Sometimes it's almost 'first-party'; sometimes it can be something else.
Domain names are too broad because I don't see why a site owner can not add trackers under the domain, or some related domain names that were 'trusted'.
There's an option to do this as those anti-virus software do, have a database of hashes of the scripts and css, and audit them. But you know rapid things are changing on the web, it is next to impossible to keep track of those. Eventually, we'll run out of passion and energy, just unplug it already.