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by user17843 7y ago
My question to someone from the ad-industry would be if there are known "intersections" between these anonymised data sets ad-tech is using to sell as much as possible, and companies who buy these data-sets to connect them to real
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by user17843 7y ago
Nothing makes me think this. But since officially everything is pseudonymous, how would it be possible to have a website dedicated to showing the data someone has about me? Privacy International did a piece on this kind of ad-tech data surv
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by user17843 7y ago
I have yet to see a real whistleblower report by someone deep into the ad industry revealing whats really going on there. There are almost no details about what's really happening on a technical level (beyond the little things we alrea
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by user17843 7y ago
the thing is, in theory all of this data is pseudonymous, or even anonymous, as the industry creates all of these profiles and does not attach real names to it.
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by user17843 7y ago
> it even automatically saved the identified user's profile pic from facebook into their database. Please share more information. Did that require the user to be logged into FB?
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by user17843 7y ago
I think it was a combined persona from Nick and Hal, with Nick doing most of the writing in the forum.
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by user17843 7y ago
Have I been pwned prompted me to abandon my old addresses and switch to a provider that allows trash mails and email aliases. Originally my address was breached by Dropbox and Kickstarter. It took me many months to switch over, as I did not
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by user17843 7y ago
If that's the case they would be extremely short-sighted, as their strategy failed and the game is dead now. But we all know that financial decisions aren't being made by engineers.
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by user17843 7y ago
You think the decision to make a fail game like Artifact with the main goal of getting as much money as possible was a software engineer decision?
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by user17843 7y ago
I downloaded it today as a new user and it did not have it enabled.
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by user17843 7y ago
Technically, ad-tracking is not an invasion to privacy per sé, and does not identify a person. It is always connected to a client, and it is illegal to connect the client browsing data to a real person. So from that perspective, how is ad-t
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by user17843 7y ago
Good question. It would have made everything so much easier. How much work was done on this selective cookie blocking implementation? Personally I always hoped they would simply copy Privacy Badger and develop an algorithm, instead of relyi
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by user17843 7y ago
I once created a project based on affiliate links and I researched the implications of this a lot. I came to the conclusion for a corporate project it's a very elegant way to make money, as theoretically it's a win-win for everone
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by user17843 7y ago
It already happened, and was called "Occupy Wallstreet". Then identity politics came around and occupied the left.
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by user17843 7y ago
Nope. The linked mozilla blog post clearly talks about the fingerprinting settings, and the comment I replied to did not specify anything related to "blocking underlying techniques".
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by user17843 7y ago
Firefox Fingerprinting protection has nothing to do with real fingerprinting protection, and does not afffect panopticlick results in any way. It just bloocks a couple of known scripts based on the disconnect list. Of course they don't
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by user17843 7y ago
What i've read is that Gecko is a bit more difficult to understand when it comes to the entire code base, compared wo WebKit or Blink.
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by user17843 7y ago
The problem is the only way to combat Google in this regards would be for smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork. (The train has already left the station for anything besides WebKit o
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by user17843 7y ago
Indeed, almost the entire ad-blocking market is controlled by the company behind Adblock Plus (eyeo GmbH), who has contracts with Google. It appears they also own AdBlock, and uBlock (not confused with uBO), so during the last years they ba
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by user17843 7y ago
The fingerprint protection this new setting refers to is simply a blacklist of a couple of known JS fingerprinters. Those are not relevant for the majority of users, because fingerprinting with these kind of scripts is only used by a very s
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by user17843 7y ago
Update: The sites are now all blocked by https://www.squidblacklist.org/downloads/dg-malicious.acl , which is a list I recommend everyone to put into their pihole. Still not blocked on Google Safe Browsing.
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by user17843 7y ago
I have my browser that I use for logging into sites behind three layers of security: - Google Safe Browsing - Pihole including a couple of regularly updated malware lists - uBlock Origin It looks like Safe Browsing and pihole do not yet hav
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by user17843 7y ago
I too find it very interesting. Thanks to Chromium, we are seeing a diverse range of projects emerging that cater to different groups. Although the Dissenter extension, while a good idea, is essentially dead, there are basically no lively d
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by user17843 7y ago
Let me guess: Google will tie the new proposal to a new Chrome setting which effectively identifies tracking cookies according to this new identifier, and will regularly purge them.
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by user17843 7y ago
HN is not doing them a favor, except when you think that HN reader are actually incapable of thinking themselves, and need to be protected from knowledge. I refute this picture of humans. Silencing developments with ignoring them would actu
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by user17843 7y ago
While Brave is building from the core to the periphery, i.e. creating something based on solid fundamentals, Gab is taking Brave and polishing it a bit to their liking. Due to this I suspect that the Gab browser will only get a following in
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Google set to launch privacy tools to limit online tracking(reuters.com)
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by user17843 7y ago
It is not in use because it's basically illegal, and due to relieance on JavaScrip, a simple script blocker can take down your entire business. The industry used fingerprinters, but for one it didn't really help them make more mon
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by user17843 7y ago
yes, it's sickening. I do my best to filter out all the like and upvote stuff, but it doesn't really help because it changes the entire atmosphere of a platform and thus affects me too.
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by user17843 7y ago
No. Quote about canvas fingerprinting: "Comparing our results with a 2014 study [1], we find three important trends. First, the most prominent trackers have by-and-large stopped using it, suggesting that the public backlash fo

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