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> Is this a cat and mouse game? In many ways it is. When I first started blocking using pac files. It was painfully obvious that samesite advertising is the
by sumtechguy 2y ago
> Is this a cat and mouse game?
In many ways it is. When I first started blocking using pac files. It was painfully obvious that samesite advertising is the harder thing to block. Luckily for the blockers most companies have been lazy about adverts and put them in known locations. Which works just as well for whole site blocking (known trackers). However, once the adverts are blended into the real data it becomes much harder. Such as what youtube is experimenting with (putting adverts right in the same data stream remuxed). As long as the adverts follow known patterns blocking works fairly easily. The next 'arms' race will be AI detection and block. It will only be a matter of time until someone comes up with a plugin that does exactly that.
> Does this prevent Google's cookieless tracking technology?
To a point. But you do not need much data to fingerprint. Think it is something like 12-13 bits plus your IP even with a VPN.
- timeon 2y ago> Think it is something like 12-13 bits plus your IP even with a VPN. Is that legal under GDPR?
- SSLy 2y agoNo, but the enforcement has been fairly toothless. Hopefully same team that designed DMA will make a stronger variant of GDPR.
- sumtechguy 2y agodont know. legal does not have much to do with it. You just dont need that much info to identify someone. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ I was wrong it is more like 20-30 bits you need. But those bits are fairly known how to get by the advertisers. The reality is most people do not known about or are resigned to it.
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