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This is a creative approach, and on some level I like it. However, it does seem to be kicking the can down the road. If a website is storing significant details

This is a creative approach, and on some level I like it. However, it does seem to be kicking the can down the road. If a website is storing significant details in my browser I'd still want to know why, necessitating.... some sort of... banner? I'm only half-joking. What's to stop airgap.js leaking my data, either deliberately or accidentally? How do I disable it before it starts collecting? It would be nice to see this post describe whether and how they audited what information is collected and why. The slippery-slope towards ever-more pervasive and clever means of collecting ever-more detailed data about users is truly Orwellian. In fact, it's worse, since Orwell thought it would only be governments doing it when in fact it's apparently everyone. It's no longer normal to defend why so much data should be collected; instead it's so normalised that it's not questioned at all, as here. We really do need to hold up more examples of organisations who successfully achieve their aims without resorting to surveillance capitalism.

Sephr 5y ago
> It would be nice to see this post describe whether and how they audited what information is collected and why. We try to push reasonable defaults where possible, and our optional telemetry only consists of encountered hostnames which should generally prevent PII leaks. Outside of our optional hostname telemetry, we do not collect any tracker data from customer sites for ourselves. > What's to stop airgap.js leaking my data, either deliberately or accidentally? Deliberately: Contracts / legal agreements Accidentally: Airgap.js regulates itself and do not special-case any connections originating from our own library, so our own data emissions are regulated by airgap.js like any other emission. > How do I disable it before it starts collecting? As a site owner, you can easily disable the quarantine and replay features for your visitors. We may expose a way in the future for site visitors to signal to our consent manager that they don't want quarantine + replay. For now, you can send an opt-out consent signal automatically with GPC (Global Privacy Control, implemented by Brave)
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> It would be nice to see this post describe whether and how they audited what information is collected and why. We try to push reasonable defaults where possible, and our optional telemetry only consists of encountered hostnames which should generally prevent PII leaks. Outside of our optional hostname telemetry, we do not collect any tracker data from customer sites for ourselves. > What's to stop airgap.js leaking my data, either deliberately or accidentally? Deliberately: Contracts / legal agreements Accidentally: Airgap.js regulates itself and do not special-case any connections originating from our own library, so our own data emissions are regulated by airgap.js like any other emission. > How do I disable it before it starts collecting? As a site owner, you can easily disable the quarantine and replay features for your visitors. We may expose a way in the future for site visitors to signal to our consent manager that they don't want quarantine + replay. For now, you can send an opt-out consent signal automatically with GPC (Global Privacy Control, implemented by Brave)

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