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It's more like a mixture of context and client-targeting (referer for example)

I don't work in the field. I think part of the reason why my perspective diverges from yours is probably that your profession is extremely intransparent about what actually happens…

because I never see any ads :P 20-30 percent of people use ad-blockers, and I think I already know the demographics compared to the exposed population. But for a serious argument, …

Aren't A/B tests super short-term and specific to single advertisers? In the end the money in the system is limited, and if one competitor achieves a high level of revenue via A/B …

there are state-sponsered media like BBC, etc.

Probably. I think it's a downward spiral, it only works because each player is forced to play along due to fundamentals of game theory. So what we are seeing is that the methods be…

All of this money and effort to create something that has never scientifically been proven to work: Super-targeted ads, instead of contextual ads. The context is already there. Eac…

Should be easy to avoid with simply using another cookie jar or blocking third-party cookies. It seems the direct connection can only be made when a user is logged into a facebook …

The functionality is part of every decent password manager, which takes care of basically all your passwords, not the ones stored in your browser. So I don't understand the enthusi…

There is "sexism" on both sides. Powerful women use it against powerless men, and vice versa. Ignoring one aspect over the other won't lead to lasting solutions. Since more men are…

It doesn't sound like scraping. What they do is they fetch the prices for their own products when the users browses a competitor. The prices of their competitors' products are alre…

Imho it isn't relevant. The implication of OP is that the fact that they are female paints Google in a bad light, not that they were protest leaders. Corporations do not care about…

> More like software companies whose installers 'helpfully' install their browser extension behind the users back. When there's a will, there is a way...

Maybe no one really knows anymore why the feature was implemented that way in the first place. I think the post-mortem has shown that the biggest problem of mozilla is fragmentatio…

I don't understand this logic at all, it baffles me. Malware can do a lot of things, but I never heard of common software being designed under the assumption that malware has taken…

Someone please make a googlebot noindex web page with a list of participating websites, in an effort to make resistance against google go viral. If Google is reduced to basically p…

Chrome has been doing it since around 2016, it seems.

1. from the perspective of firefox forks (Waterfox has around 200-300k daily users, which is a lot in this context) 2. from the perspective of the entire web (Waterfox has only aro…

The topic we are talking about doesn't imply the question of no security vs. high security, it is way more nuanced, and most Waterfox users probably enjoy a very high level of secu…

I have observed a big anti-waterfox and anti-fork atmosphere in the Firefox Community. I don't think the criticism of Waterfox is honest, because the browser has been doing excepti…

> and is just as much a danger to online privacy as the rest of the Large Technology Companies like Google and Facebook how so?

and that's an assumption you make that requires evidence. Your claim is that there is not only this kind of identification happening, but that it happens even if I have the common …

OK, but how do you account for changing IP-Addresses? You would need to take one identifier that never changes. Maybe they have machine learning which combines a couple of factors …