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by user17843 7y ago
the smile links look different, burt I am not entirely sure about the referrer IDs. They look like: - fsclp_pl_dp_12 - fsclp_pl_dp_11 with each link having a distinct number, counting down to 1. It doesn't look like a typical referrer
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by user17843 7y ago
thats not ad-tracking, that is geolocation tracking for language settings, etc.
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by user17843 7y ago
IP tracking is fairly uncommon, no?
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by user17843 7y ago
Here are some of the doomsday links from the source code: - scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2124872/us-government-admits-it-studies-ufos-so-about-those - content.time.com/time/special
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by user17843 7y ago
I looked at the source code and indeed they put referrer IDs to the amazon links. It's even a dedicated ID for each link, to see the number of purchases for each link. So mozilla is taking part in the tracking.
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by user17843 7y ago
The question of corellation between both aspects is definitely worth to be asked, and it's relevant.
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by user17843 7y ago
Since the media is all about feminist propaganda nowadays, this fact is not being mentioned in the headline. Although it is the most important part of the data. Why are men increasingly chosing to end their lifes? Could there be a relation
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by user17843 7y ago
> Now, you are right about the double-keyed caches – although using this to track users is quite more complicated, less precise and less reliable than first-/third-party cookies, it's something we need to address. We're wo
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by user17843 7y ago
so apparently no one cares about the site then.
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by user17843 7y ago
The article has it wrong with Safari. While ITP (Intelligent Tracking Protection) started in 2017 indeed, Safari has been blocking all third party (and thus all tracking) cookies since almost forever. Safari started to block all third party
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by user17843 7y ago
I laughed when I discovered that, while the mobile data on https://data.firefox.com has been "coming soon" for more than a year now, they had opened a github issue for adding Google Analytics to the site, and subsequen
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by user17843 7y ago
How useful is blocking third party scripts and frames against this?
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by user17843 7y ago
it looks like it specifically targets cryptocurrency owners. If one has critical personal data on a computer and use it to casually browse the web, one should probably rethink that approach and use different physical devices for different
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by user17843 7y ago
Additionally the data points for the low-fertility countries are extremely reliable, while the data for the few countries with supposedely rapidly expanding population is only guesswork. Most of the projected population increase in Africa i
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by user17843 7y ago
it is way more. more like up to 50 million.
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by user17843 7y ago
its not about the ads, its about the survaillence infrastructure.
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by user17843 7y ago
I guess OP implies more like a structural evil, as a whole, and the broader effects on society. I have some experience with adtech, and I know a significant part of it is exploiting low-education low-income people to spend money with manipu
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by user17843 7y ago
Not directly answering your question, but in general the studies and anecdotes point to around 200 mg of elemental magnesium in the form of magnesium threonate and 4,000 IE of Vitamin D to be a very good combination. The Threonate makes the
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by user17843 7y ago
Unfortunately the mozilla website is run by Marketing people nowadays. There are many competent engineers at mozilla who probably don't believe in this nonsense marketing mumbling, but they no longer have a word to say about how the pr
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by user17843 7y ago
If the move is really not motivated by money, that would make it a very suicidal move, as this means the Foundation holds the Corporation hostage and uses the Corporation's long-term reputation to push products that no one really wants
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by user17843 7y ago
That's one aspect. The deeper problem though, is that all the other products offered under the firefox brand are revenue failures, and no one really uses them beyond those who already use the firefox browser anyway. And that also expla
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by user17843 7y ago
When it comes to dependence on ad-tech money, the writing is on the wall: > Cost per click on Google properties — which roughly measures the amount Alphabet charges advertisers for each ad served on its web sites — dropped 29 percent fro
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by user17843 7y ago
When it comes to dependence on ad-tech money, the writing is on the wall: > Cost per click on Google properties — which roughly measures the amount Alphabet charges advertisers for each ad served on its web sites — dropped 29 percent fro
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by user17843 7y ago
There are around 10 more prominent browsers and lots of smaller forks, which is enough choice in the context of anti-trust.
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by user17843 7y ago
Wow, ok that means 30,000 definitely won't be an existential threat for them.
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by user17843 7y ago
You are probably right, although a low number of rules will also affect them as their acceptable ads program is based on the fact that they block everything else. I still wonder if they can continue to offer that program with 30,000 rules o
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by user17843 7y ago
ABP released a statement to german news site golem.de, saying that they "prepare for the worst case". This means they anticipate Google to target the Acceptable Ads program. Originally I thought 30,000 rules wouldn't be enoug
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by user17843 7y ago
yes, thats probably the plan. well, anti-trust these days is just a buzzword, in a legal sense it is defined in a very strict way, and the cost for companies to anticipate an anti-trust ruling is way higher than just pushing their own inter
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by user17843 7y ago
Maybe think about it in a different way. Right now, there is a kill-switch within googles primary product that could essentially destroy their business model. This is not about google wanting to harm the current power users. It is probably
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by user17843 7y ago
thats quite ironic!

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