FTL VS ip-blindness

It's actually the name of the Pi-hole DNS server (FTLDNS) - pihole-FTL: - https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/ - https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL

FTL v5.23

[✓] Detected ARMv8 (or newer) processor [i] Checking for existing FTL binary... [i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (28) Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Die Wartezeit für die Verbindung ist abgelaufen [✗] Downloading and Installing FTL Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-armv8-linux-gnueabihf not found [✗] FTL Engine not installed

You will need to install it manually. You can find older versions on github: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases

To fix this, the "Other" category was introduced on this pull request: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/1284.

FTL v5.22

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above. [✗] Downloading and Installing FTL Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-linux-x86_64 not found [✗] FTL Engine not installed Unable to complete update, please contact Pi-hole Support

Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-armv7-linux-gnueabihf not found

More here: https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness

Yes, but have in mind that in a future it may not be possible. Take a look to the Gnatcatcher proposal: https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness

> at the very least, the ad network will be able to see your IP and know that you like athletic shoes and visited www.wereallylikeshoes.com. If you visit some other domain first-ad-network.com owns with the same IP it within a small window of time, it can be pretty confident it's the same person and even store some client side data at that point. It feels like they can construct a reasonably good profile about their users by using that technique.

Yes, there are a lot of user identifying bits in an IP address. Chrome has two proposals: https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness I'm not sure what other browsers are thinking?

> That's considering the browser doesn't leak out any other potentially identifying information.

Which they definitely do. All the browsers are working on figuring out how to thwart fingerprinting, and it's really hard. I am glad, at least, that we were able to get Google Ads to publicly commit to not fingerprinting.

> when you click on the ad, they know one interest about you and, if you clicked in ads from other campaigns they run, they may reconstruct your profile well

Yes, when people click on ads in Turtledove the advertiser does learn something. This is a huge improvement to the status quo where advertisers learn things just by bidding, or an intermediate stage where advertisers learn things when they win an auction -- users don't click on ads very often, so the amount of information leaked this way is very low.

Exactly how much information the advertiser is able to learn on a click is still very much up in the air, so if you have views on this you might consider participating on the repo?

"Near-path NAT"[1] has been suggested as a mechanism that browsers can use to proxy requests through an intermediate server, similar to what you suggest.

[1] https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/near_pa...

> and you know my IP address

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb... links to https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness for how they intend to handle this.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)

If you want to prevent fingerprinting, you need to look at where the identifying bits are coming from. (ex: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/) The IP address provides enough bits to uniquely identify many users, and when combined with just a few more bits, to identify almost anyone.

TOR is one solution here, which you could potentially also describe as "adding forced MitM to every connection". The proposals in https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/near_pa... and https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/willful... have different tradeoffs than TOR, with the "TOR is painfully slow" problem being a big one.

If you have better ideas, though, I would be very interested in reading them!