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Slight issue with privacy is that any persistent source with sufficient entropy is going to be a unique identifier, and even low entropy sources when used toge
by motohagiography 6y ago
Slight issue with privacy is that any persistent source with sufficient entropy is going to be a unique identifier, and even low entropy sources when used together create an n^n^n... sized field of identifiers. Same goes for browser fingerprinting, it's the same set of techniques.
> Through apps, CAID collects user device data, such as the device start-up time, model, time zone, country, language and IP address.
Any business whose gross margin per unit is as low as P&G's is effectively an advertising company with a smelly water supplier in the back. We can probably expect the same surveillance techniques from the other CPG manufacturers as well.
The browser itself has become parasitic, and the only viable way to mitigate this predatory advertiser and surveillance problem is to recognize and delineate the difference between what can only be described as the hegemonic internet (hegemonet?) and private channels like matrix/element, or previously irc and other ways of connecting.
- sixothree 6y agoMaybe VPN providers need to start providing hosted browsers.