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AmIUnique
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48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person
You are. Compare the fingerprints of your two browsers: https://amiunique.org, https://coveryourtracks.eff.org. Very likely, the fingerprints are very similar. For anonymity, use Tor.
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Is EFF's PrivacyBadger still worth it, and is EFF's CoverYourTracks right?
Hey, what do you think about amiunique.org? Seems to get fingerprinted even when using Tor Browser with Safest security setting. Of course JS enabled on TLD.
I recommend you try out amiunique.org. It gives a slightly better overview.
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Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
They are better at some aspects, yes, but also easier to track because of others. So few people use FF that your setup is likely unique, making it very simple to track around the web. Go try a sight like https://amiunique.org/ and test your browser.
- Reddit just "recommended" me a community about the city of Bari, which I googled on Google Images yesterday for the first time in my life. How did it know?
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topics
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How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–and Why You Should
The browser keeps track of he top 5 categories from this list of these 629 topics. https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...
Other than when it returns a random topic, the browser only reveals a topic to a site if that site has observed the user on a site with that topic before.
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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
Delete Chrome.
“The intent of the Topics API is to provide callers (including third-party ad-tech or advertising providers on the page that run script) with coarse-grained advertising topics that the page visitor might currently be interested in.”
https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics#the-api-an...
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Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium
> You seem to be taking things that are factual, normal, everyday, aspects of the WHATWG working process and trying to imply that chrome is doing something unusual, or untoward with its process here, but it isn't. It's doing what is necessary to make a proposal with WHATWG: have a trial.
And yet, we've seen many such proposals go through this process because Chrome is paying lip service to it. Whatever Google wants it ships. And Google wants this.
As an adjacent (ads- and tracking-related) example: Google's FLoC flopped, hard. So they immediatey shipped the replacement Topics API [1] despite there being no consensus. E.g. Firefox is against [2] (but Chrome presents Firefox's position as "No signal" in the feature status). And despite the fact that its status is literally "individual proposal, not accepted" [3]
Do not assume any good intent on Google's part when it comes to Google's business interests. Their intent is always malicious until proven otherwise. And there have been fewer and fewer cases when they have been proven otherwise.
[1] https://chromestatus.com/feature/5680923054964736
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622
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Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API
> [0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...
Nice v1 at the end. We can assume that this list is final and will not be changed?
> nor (by policy) other kinds of sensitive PII.
Yeah, it just exposes interest in family planing, loans, ..., which we do know have absolutely no potential for abuse.
Or given the attempts to outlaw drag there is probably no potential way to use interest in Nail Care or Makeup in a negative fashion, right?
> Yes, if you assume the people who designed this API were idiots
I assume they are getting paid well to play the role.
As a fan of over-ambitious taxonomies I'm fascinated by this attempt to create a taxonomy covering every possible category of targeted ad: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...
They're requiring advertisers to "attest" that they won't abuse the API. Clearly they're taking privacy concerns seriously /s
https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/issues/74#...
Yes, if you assume the people who designed this API were idiots, and everyone who reviewed the proposals were idiots, that could be possible outcome. (Not a likely outcome, mind you, because it'd be an incredibly low-value and low-yield attack). But why just assume that, rather than read the actual proposal?
In reality, the topics come from a predefined taxonomy[0] that certainly won't include topics like "bondage", nor (by policy) other kinds of sensitive PII. Additionally the system inserts noise into the system (5% of the time the topic will be a random choice rather than one of your actual inferred topics of interest), so that you can't actually infer the user's real interests from a single ad click like that.
[0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/ove...
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W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
Don't take my word for it: WordPress treated FLoC as a security concern in 2021: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/18/proposal-treat-fl...
A good overview of the context: https://digiday.com/media/we-cant-un-floc-ourselves-googles-...
More detail: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
When it comes to Topics, it's essential that there be hands on the wheel at W3C that approach the solidification of e.g. the Topics taxonomy https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... from a neutral perspective that takes into account the various ways in which proposed topics could be dangerous, and how strongly to word the specification to prevent it from creeping in increasingly privacy-eroding ways in the future.
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Brave breaks language reporting in browser for more anonymity
> I don't have hundreds of cookies set by any website
Are you sure? These are third-party cookies, and it's not easy to get a full list. One way to do it is to go to a major publisher (NYT, CNN, etc) with devtools open and networking enabled. Filter to third party requests and look for ones sending cookies. Trying this on the NYT front page I saw 3p requests with cookies to amazon-adsystem.com, doubleclick.net, prebid.media.net, rubiconproject.com, adnxs.com, 3lift.com, openx.net, google.com, scorecardresearch.com, casalemedia.com, pubmatic.com, bluekai.com, adsrvr.org, bing.com, twitter.com, everesttech.net, criteo.com, dotomi.com, bidswitch.net, mfadsrvr.com, agkn.com, pswec.com, adtdp.com, demdex.net, bidr.io, adition.com, brand-display.com, intentiq.com, w55c.net, pippio.com, rlcdn.com, and adsymptotic.com before I got bored and stopped counting. Some of these might not be for personalized advertising, but most of them look like it.
> browsers would be incentivized to implement with good intentions.
Browsers compete on privacy, and what they do is open source. So while their incentives aren't perfect, external groups (and competing browsers!) can help keep them honest by paying attention and calling attention to bad decisions.
A great example of this was Mozilla's thorough and careful privacy analysis of FLoC (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/privacy-analysi...), and looking at Topics (https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics) Chrome seems to have spent a lot of time addressing that feedback.
What are some alternatives?
creepjs - Creepy device and browser fingerprinting
fingerprintjs - Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.
bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Medusa - Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
ungoogled-chromium-archlinux - Arch Linux packaging for ungoogled-chromium
canvas-fingerprinting - POC of Canvas fingerprinting
homebank-converter - A web app to convert an export bank file to compatible Homebank csv file.
monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.
user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
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Lidarr - Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music.