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by Sephr 3y ago
Yes. My original draft addressed too many issues at once and didn't receive enough engagement on HN. I re-drafted it to be easier to understand the key points. The improved accessibility seems to have helped. Also, thank you for noting
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by Sephr 3y ago
> This means that the display URL in your ad needs to match the domain that visitors land on when they click on your ad. This policy is fundamentally impossible to enforce without domain ownership verification. 'It is against our po
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Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud(eligrey.com)
135 points by Sephr 3y ago|51 comments
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by Sephr 3y ago
Link fraud happens on adtech platforms owned by Google, Microsoft, X, and reddit. They each allow advertisers to spoof links with unverified "vanity URLs", laundering trust in their systems, while simultaneously deflecting blame
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by Sephr 3y ago
Yeah, I meant that one. So confusing and easy to typo...
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by Sephr 3y ago
Was this on iOS or Mac OS? I was unable to reproduce on Mac OS Safari with 1Blocker installed and don't have any iOS devices on hand.
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by Sephr 3y ago
It can also mean more-expensive prices to wealthier people, or lower-quality scam products for people too poor to complain (poverty can significantly decrease one's energy and available free time) once they get them. The discrimination
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by Sephr 3y ago
Hi, I'm the author of this post. I'm curious to hear about your experiences with link fraud and interest tracking, and opinions on how the issues surrounding these techniques should be addressed by the adtech industry.
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Unverified vanity URLs and interest tracking catalyze fraud online(eligrey.com)
36 points by Sephr 3y ago|24 comments
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by Sephr 3y ago
This is a cut-down RTX A6000 (i.e. same generation) made to fit within the limits imposed by US sanctions against China. I think you're misinterpreting the performance numbers.
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by Sephr 3y ago
Ad networks still make 48% as much revenue on average on browsers that don't support third-party cookies. That is plenty. Users don't need to assist ad networks.
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by Sephr 3y ago
Open source is what you make of it. If you have no plans to change Chromium, then sure, "It's just more chrome market share". I would argue that you probably shouldn't be making a web browser unless you have plans to cha
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by Sephr 3y ago
It's open source. You're free to base your own browser on Chromium.
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by Sephr 3y ago
Why would it be okay to let advertisers know you have an interest in cars? Seeing personally targeted ads affects your autonomy. I don't want to be influenced by ads on every website that are targeted by my socioeconomic status, such a
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by Sephr 3y ago
You just ignored all of my questions and are now insinuating that I said something implying that I am "sticking to third party tracking cookies". In case you didn't get the drift from "Advertisers don't have an intr
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by Sephr 3y ago
How many people have you met in your life that have told you that they want to help advertisers serve them better personally targeted ads? If the answer is a very low number, then why is Privacy Sandbox on by default? In Chrome, none of the
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by Sephr 3y ago
I looked into it more. Enterprise edition actually is fully open source, including the (easily removable) DRM...
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by Sephr 3y ago
I'm confused. You claimed in your first comment that your platform is "fully open-source". How is your enterprise edition "fully open source" if I have to pay to enable certain features when self-hosting?
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by Sephr 3y ago
Facebook is primarily at fault, although I would also blame DigitalOcean for having unreasonable minimum enforcement time limits. DigitalOcean should reach out to Netcraft and decide on a more reasonable minimum enforcement time that is bas
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by Sephr 3y ago
> No one seems to have read this except Digital Ocean And that matters how? Digital Ocean read the complaint and acted on it, so the reputational damage occurred. You don't have to make a public article to damage someone's repu
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by Sephr 3y ago
Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.
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by Sephr 3y ago
The default ratio clearly implies a profit-seeking share in my opinion.
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by Sephr 3y ago
Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine. Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot
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by Sephr 3y ago
> What is the problem? It's open source software implementing anti-features. Why should I willingly share the value of my attention with my browser vendor?
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by Sephr 3y ago
The Brave model does not allow you to directly pay websites. You directly pay Brave, who then distributes funds to some participating websites. Additionally, they take a 30% cut of the value of their "basic attention token" shitco
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by Sephr 3y ago
This is sure to backfire and increase attention to NEWAG's own alleged criminal behavior. NEWAG executives & those responsible should face criminal charges for conspiracy to defraud in addition to libel. It's clear that NEWAG
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by Sephr 3y ago
Clients could probably hook/trap a fake buffer exploit for protocol compatibility without the security concerns. This ends up becoming a game of cat and mouse resulting in even more intricate technical workarounds and hacks.
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by Sephr 3y ago
It isn't generally illegal to publish software that interoperates with third party platforms that don't wish to be interoperated with. If this uses copyrighted keys then it will be a bit more tricky (although fair use could still
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by Sephr 3y ago
The cost of this service doesn't scale with number of 'breached accounts per domain'. Ideally, Troy should charge per domain and only choose a modest profit margin.
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by Sephr 3y ago
It seems like Apple iCloud Private Email Relay may be Apple's own stealth way to introduce similar functionality, albeit with the useful spam/leakage data only available to Apple in this case.

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