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englehardt

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    Comment #15704835

    Hi, one of the authors here. We discuss this in the last section of the post. uBlock Origin uses lists to determine which requests to block. We tested the two largest, EasyList and…

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    Comment #15365349

    Gmail's image proxying actually won't help much with this style of tracking. In the paper we found email addresses (or hashes of them) leaking to third parties via a query string p…

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    Comment #15365191

    We found that Apple Mail clients typically load remote resources by default, unless the message is spam. That content can't set or retrieve cookies, which is an improvement over ot…

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    Comment #15365137

    Hello, I'm one of the authors of this work. The code and data for the study is available here: https://github.com/citp/email_tracking (measurement platform here: https://github.com…

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    Comment #11917577

    I prototyped this feature last year as an intern at Mozilla. I think the engineering done for containers can be exposed in a lot of cool ways to the user. I'd love for you to send …

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    Comment #11732370

    Feel free to email us at the addresses listed on the bottom of the linked site.

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    Comment #11732350

    Thanks, I've added a clarification.

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    Comment #11730250

    There have been a couple plugins which try to address this question: Chameleon ( https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon ), which is still in early stages, and FireGloves ( https:/…

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    Comment #11730189

    Yes, we'll definitely do an analysis on this and write it up.

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    Comment #11730091

    The Tor Browser folks have done some excellent work to reduce the fingerprintability of the browser. See "Specific Fingerprinting Defenses in the Tor Browser" here: https://www.tor…

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    Comment #11730023

    Yes, no sound is recorded. Access to the user's mic isn't possible without a permission. If there are sections of the website or paper that seem to imply that, let me know and we'l…

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    Comment #11729964

    Other co-author here. Unfortunately there are good performance reasons for allowing WebRTC to access the local IP, see the lengthy discussion here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho…