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Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by esaym »

driverdan wrote: post #49
diegorbaquero wrote: post #16

In Chrome: Settings > Privacy > Content Settings > Tick 'Block third-party cookies and site data' Also set 'Send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic' And install uBlock Origin, ofc.

3rd party cookies should be disabled by default in all browsers. It significantly improves your privacy with minimal impact. After many years of blocking 3rd party cookies the only thing that's broken for me is my bank's bill pay system, which is an iframe of a 3rd party service.

heh, same here. I can't use my banks ebilling website.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by hinkley »

gtirloni wrote: post #68
cs0 wrote: post #10

Nice, so now by using this I have an NSFW site logged in my workplace's DNS log. Be careful if your employer checks such things.

If your workplace is creating any trouble for you because of a few unique hits to NSFW websites, better reevaluate where you work.

Without the constant social pressure to mark content, this 'Few unique hits' would become a pattern of behavior.

The system is working. Let it do its job.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by ryan-c »

jschwartzi wrote: post #69
Infinitesimus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep I also clicked first. It might need an "NSFW" tag in the title to warn other users. (Let's see how long it takes for Corporate IT to come yell at us)

Well, on the bright side I'll be able to see if our IT guy actually logs this stuff. It'll be fun explaining it.

DNS prefetch makes those logs fairly useless - fortunately or unfortunately depending.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by Tepix »

esaym wrote: post #81
driverdan wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3rd party cookies should be disabled by default in all browsers. It significantly improves your privacy with minimal impact. After many years of blocking 3rd party cookies the only thing that's broken for me is my bank's bill pay system, which is an iframe of a 3rd party service.

heh, same here. I can't use my banks ebilling website.

Try opening the iframe directly.

Also, complain to your bank.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by Tepix »

thescriptkiddie wrote: post #64
denzil_correa wrote: post #2

Apparently. I am not logged into anything. I tried it on Opera (along with the internal ad blocker) and I'm not using Privacy Badger.

This only works of you have third party cookies turned on. I'm not sure about Opera, but I'm pretty sure Firefox has them off by default.

Firefox has third party cookies enabled by default, PLUS they hide the setting so you have to search for it to disable it.

I'm 100% sure that they designed it that way to please Google. The pull requests to change it were ignored. And then they claim to be your partner in keeping your privacy.

AFAIK only Safari has 3rd party cookies disabled by default. There are only very few sites that require 3rd party cookies. I use none of them.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by [deleted] »

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

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Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by givinguflac »

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

This seems like a good plan. However I find it funny that one would use Chrome and be concerned about sites gathering information about you.
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