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Unclassified Cookies That Live for 60 Years Are Simply Not OK.(twitter.com)
1 points by kkm 8y ago|1 comments
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by kkm 8y ago
Lot of companies are shooting themselves in their own foot by sharing critical data with a plethora of third-parties. They put sensitive information like username, orderid in the URL which is then shared with all the third-parties on that p
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by kkm 8y ago
Thank you for the work <3
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by kkm 8y ago
HN thread about the Adblockers performance study mentioned in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19175003
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by kkm 8y ago
Ghostery is open-source for almost an year now, You can check the code and repo: https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension
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by kkm 8y ago
Nice, is this the YouTube Red subscription?
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by kkm 8y ago
Yes, I think there are certain domains specially spyware, malware that need to be blocked altogether and DNS blocking is the most optimal way for that, specially considering the wide adoption of IoT, where extensions cannot run.
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by kkm 8y ago
afaik, in Chrome Web Assembly works fine when used inside Workers.
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by kkm 8y ago
On platforms which supports extensions it's easy to block. For platforms not supporting extensions it is really tricky and afaik, there is no solution that works all the time for YouTube. With the increasing adoption of DoH it will be
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by kkm 8y ago
Yes, that's another way to look at it. But it is not necessarily true for all the users.
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by kkm 8y ago
In addition to this, let's also keep in mind the huge cost of maintaining two different code bases of extensions for different browser versions.
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by kkm 8y ago
According to the @pythux - author of the post, some neat tricks used: https://twitter.com/Pythux/status/1096516371163295750
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by kkm 8y ago
- As pointed out in the previous comment, with DNS based blocking users often have to choose between convenience and privacy. As an example: Blocking ads on Youtube with DNS blocking is very hard, unless you block youtube* itself. - It does
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by kkm 8y ago
Thank you for the feedback, changed the title to match the title of the blog.
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Adblockers Performance Study(whotracks.me)
212 points by kkm 8y ago|121 comments
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Show HN: Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python(remusao.github.io)
6 points by kkm 8y ago|0 comments
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Everyone of us is being stalked in the Online world(medium.com)
3 points by kkm 8y ago|0 comments
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Trackers who steal: More than 100 websites still affected from MageCart(whotracks.me)
3 points by kkm 8y ago|0 comments
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15 minutes about our online privacy(medium.com)
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by kkm 8y ago
Image captioned `Westfriedhof Station, Stockholm.` is actually `Westfriedhof Station, Munich.`
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Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR(cliqz.com)
191 points by kkm 8y ago|135 comments
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by kkm 8y ago
More details can be found here: German: https://cliqz.com/magazine/re-consent English: https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/re-consent
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by kkm 8y ago
re:consent Welcome to more privacy control re:consent allows you to view and change the consent you have given to websites for data processing. It works for websites that adhere to the IAB's Transparency & Consent Framework, as wel
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Show HN: Re:consent – View and change the consent you have given to websites(github.com)
86 points by kkm 8y ago|52 comments
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Watching porn on the web – pleasure for some, work for others(cliqz.com)
1 points by kkm 8y ago|0 comments
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Post GDPR:A look at Tracking landscape, competition and compliance(whotracks.me)
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Lufthansa data leak: What a single URL can reveal about you(cliqz.com)
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by kkm 8y ago
There is also a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08959 WhoTracks.Me: Monitoring the online tracking landscape at scale Arjaldo Karaj, Sam Macbeth, Rémi Berson, Josep M. Pujol (Submitted on 24 Apr 2018) We present the
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Show HN: WhoTracks.Me – Bringing transparency to online tracking(github.com)
13 points by kkm 8y ago|2 comments
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Third-party cookies - the guests who won't leave(whotracks.me)
1 points by kkm 8y ago|0 comments

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