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I don’t know the shady data economy at all, but are there datasets out there which let you de-anonymize just via residential/mobile IP address or hostname? I
by consumer451 5y ago
I don’t know the shady data economy at all, but are there datasets out there which let you de-anonymize just via residential/mobile IP address or hostname?
I just assumed there were, available to any very motivated party.
And how effective and wide spread is browser fingerprinting to de-anon someone?
- kuschkufan 5y agoConsumer451 seems to be insuating that age verification by CC for porn might be okay? Since your privacy online is lost anyhow? While stating "he doesn't know ... at all".
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- consumer451 5y ago> Consumer451 seems to be insuating that age verification by CC for porn might be okay? Since your privacy online is lost anyhow? While stating "he doesn't know ... at all". How did kuschkufan manage to put those words into my mouth? Really, how did you get that from what I said? I was just pointing out that it might not take a credit card to ID you. And I really don’t know what datasets are out there, but I assume the worst.
- nybble41 5y ago> I don’t know the shady data economy at all, but are there datasets out there which let you de-anonymize just via residential/mobile IP address or hostname? Sure, and they're built using data collected from shady sites which ask for personal information such as CC details under dubious pretenses (like age verification) and associate it with the visitor's IP address. These de-anonymizing datasets exist because of poorly considered policies exactly like the one being discussed here.
- consumer451 5y agoThanks. Yeah, uploading PII to a something like a porn site seems crazy to me, but the industry seems to make a lot of money via card charges so maybe I am in the minority. I also want to make clear I was not endorsing the policy outlined in OP. Just curious.