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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
Any AWS metric that doesnt have the network costs is useless. If anyone wants a dedicated unmetered server up to 20gbps i'd recommend datapacket.com.
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
It's not okay for Apple. It's a bait and switch tactic which Google uses that Apple is doing now. They created their App ecosystem on the basis of Ad's. Now they're strong arming developers to doing things their way. It
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
I can invest some money right now and become a local ISP. Unless I'm ready to sink $500 billion, I cannot be Google. This is how big of a problem it is. I would recommend any founder to delay startups and let anti trust probes and hope
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
Why would I want to give out that part completely? Upcoming spec change has two important thing required that will allow it to work without JS or user interaction with the page. Obviously I'm not going to give it away before the spec i
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
Have a read: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
>Latest methods dont even use JavaScript. Just CSS is enough to identify every device uniquely but you'd need JS to send the data back.
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7y ago
Wait for the new CSS version over which our team had a watch. Wont require JS after it comes out. ;D Also we know many exploits to bypass noscript if we wanted to (yes I know there are bounties for this, but we were paid much higher then an
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
This was used publicly in around 2016, stopped using around 2017 when research showed even better ways that cannot be spoofed: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints... Ours was more adv
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7y ago
This is what we knew of in 2015: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints... you can figure out where the industry is now yourself.
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
This is one that we knew of in 2015, and the public researchers just found out in 2019: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-device-fingerprints... Now we're waaay past this easy stuff to fake stuff.
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
Yes to all. Have a look if you want for a bit of evidence: This was one of the 10's of possible techniques that could identify devices uniquely among billions https://boingboing.net/2019/05/22/unique-devi
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7y ago
No, not this is some amateur work. State of the art techniques css fingerprinting can uniquely identify 1 device from billions. Also this is nothing but getting dimension of screen and other browser attributes which are useless now. The cur
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7y ago
Large companies have fixed ad spend budgets. If they dont spend they lose. Doesn't matter if its lost to fraud. Google, Facebook advertiser have more specific budgets, especially Facebook which has a large number of small advertisers.
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7y ago
I worked in the ad industry. Every web-browser including brave, tor,safari is uniquely identifiable even on same hardware. All the public computer researchers and browser vendors are years behind the techniques to fingerprint devices (proba
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7y ago
>How's this polluting their telemetry? Also, how is some random UA NOT polluting their telemetry? It's a horrible excuse, that's all it is. It was fine and then suddenly it became "an issue". It's singling
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kakkksaknmdm
7y ago
Wrong! Google deliberately blocked Edge, see the tweet here for proof: https://twitter.com/sinclairinator/status/113344983464663859...