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Firefox to ship 'network partitioning' as a new anti-tracking defense
- zodiakzz 6y agoWhy can't this be fixed by fake slowing down/randomizing cache reads? Are they wasting actual bandwidth making HTTP requests for already cached content?
- noodlesUK 6y agoImagine that you had a time-delayed cache lookup. If a web server sent different payloads (perhaps a time stamp) on each request, and set the cache control header to be fairly long, you could determine if something was coming out of a shared cache, or if it was fresh. Hence, we need it to be cached per site (unfortunately)
- ec109685 6y agoAt some point, we will have true network partitioning, where you connect with a different IP address to every domain. With IPv6 and a cooperative ISP / OS / Browser, this would be possible today. VPNs could also work work with browser makers to implement this as a fancy kind of NAT.
- abdullahkhalids 6y ago> where you connect with a different IP address to every domain That's Tor for you.
- ec109685 6y agoDoesn’t TOR keep you on same IP for the duration of the session?
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoFor every site, Tor keeps the same final IP (or more correctly, the circuit). However, you can press a button to create a new circuit at any time. For different sites, Tor creates a different final IP/circuit.
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- robbywashere_ 6y agoTime money and resources are being spent on a protection from something that should be regulated out of existence. We are now actively innovating against these tracking technologies which we are finding adversarial to our rights to privacy. Isn’t it time we ask our governments to do something about this?
- whomst 6y agoLegislation isn’t robust
- oxw 6y agoHow do you mean 'robust'? Taxes are dodged but that's not a good argument against tax law.
- stkdump 6y agoIt's an argument that both will be needed, so not so much "time, money and resources being spent" (wasted?)
- Frondo 6y agolegislation - and enforcement - is the best way we as a society can declare some things off-limits. what does it mean for it not to be robust?
- nitwit005 6y agoComputer viruses, piracy, and various forms of spam are illegal and can carry harsh sentences. We all see plenty of it. That people occasionally get caught probably does discourage some of it, but there's obviously plenty to go around. At some point you have to accept that the law won't get rid of some of this stuff.
- jlgaddis 6y agoSo, since some will choose to continue to break the law, we should just give up, do away with the laws, and make it a free for all? That makes absolutely no sense at all.