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Risky click disclosure: The GIF isn’t a GIF, it’s a JSON response containing full geo-location data on the requestor. > Not sure I would ever trust any privac

Risky click disclosure: The GIF isn’t a GIF, it’s a JSON response containing full geo-location data on the requestor. > Not sure I would ever trust any privacy claims from a company that stores this type of made-for-fingerprinting data. Reminder that every resource you request from anywhere causes the server to be able to index all this info on you. Anyone doing anything where audience matters has a subscription to MaxMind GeoIP lookup, giving you all this info inline on every request. There is nothing special about this GIF except it shows you the info the server has. If it bothers you, the idea of servers having all this info tying your requests together, you can switch on “Private Relay (Beta)” on MacOS and iOS, but note that the beta doesn’t play nice with a custom profile for DNS (it will look up once for filtering, and again for private relay).

numair 5y ago
There is a principle I live by, that most people used to live by before we entered this strange neo-savage era: “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” I expect the same from the companies with which I do business.
- IanSanders 5y ago
  The only rational thing to expect from a company is to aim to be profitable, I suppose
  - oarsinsync 5y ago
    In the MoviePass (and lesser so, WeWork) era, I'm not sure those are rational expectations anymore either.
  - skrebbel 5y ago
    This is a pretty nihilistic view of capitalism and I think we can aim to be better. FWIW I know plenty companies that try to be a good company and not just a profitable one.
- AniseAbyss 5y ago
  Did we? I believe Oppenheimer was overruled on Hiroshima.
rlt 5y ago
Note that iCloud Private Relay only applies to Safari, not other browsers or apps. A VPN (ideally with “kill switch”) + encrypted DNS would do the same for all traffic from your machine.
ignoramous 5y ago
> Risky click disclosure: The GIF isn’t a GIF, it’s a JSON response containing full geo-location data on the requestor. For the curious (a click through a proxy): https://archive.is/51hnq https://archive.is/51hnq { "location":{ "city":"Manassas" "country":"United States", "countryCode":"US", "state":"Virginia", "stateCode":"VA", "zipcode":"20109", "latitude":"38.7911", "longitude":"-77.5264", "continentCode":"NA" }, "connectionDetails":{ "isp":"G-Core Labs S.A.", "connectionType":"CORPORATE", "autonomousSystemNumber":"199524", "autonomousSystemOrg":"G-Core Labs S.A." }, "ipHash":"801ccd1d1dd4a01f73b789c5c25d70cd", "classC":"45.135.229", "ip":"45.135.229.10" }

numair 5y ago

There is a principle I live by, that most people used to live by before we entered this strange neo-savage era: “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” I expect the same from the companies with which I do business.

IanSanders 5y ago
The only rational thing to expect from a company is to aim to be profitable, I suppose
- oarsinsync 5y ago
  In the MoviePass (and lesser so, WeWork) era, I'm not sure those are rational expectations anymore either.
- skrebbel 5y ago
  This is a pretty nihilistic view of capitalism and I think we can aim to be better. FWIW I know plenty companies that try to be a good company and not just a profitable one.
AniseAbyss 5y ago
Did we? I believe Oppenheimer was overruled on Hiroshima.

rlt 5y ago

Note that iCloud Private Relay only applies to Safari, not other browsers or apps. A VPN (ideally with “kill switch”) + encrypted DNS would do the same for all traffic from your machine.

ignoramous 5y ago

> Risky click disclosure: The GIF isn’t a GIF, it’s a JSON response containing full geo-location data on the requestor. For the curious (a click through a proxy): https://archive.is/51hnq https://archive.is/51hnq { "location":{ "city":"Manassas" "country":"United States", "countryCode":"US", "state":"Virginia", "stateCode":"VA", "zipcode":"20109", "latitude":"38.7911", "longitude":"-77.5264", "continentCode":"NA" }, "connectionDetails":{ "isp":"G-Core Labs S.A.", "connectionType":"CORPORATE", "autonomousSystemNumber":"199524", "autonomousSystemOrg":"G-Core Labs S.A." }, "ipHash":"801ccd1d1dd4a01f73b789c5c25d70cd", "classC":"45.135.229", "ip":"45.135.229.10" }