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Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by mountaineer22 » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:25 PM UTC

Awesome work.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by kagamine » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:25 PM UTC

pluma wrote: post #28

kagamine wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You didn't get that he was meant to sound like a possibly Austrian psychoanalyst?

I didn't know Austrians have Dutch accents.

Where are you all getting Dutch from? He sounds generic Euro speaking English to me.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by andybak » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:26 PM UTC

danfromberlin wrote: post #34

Who else feels a sense of horrible dread and frustration that every minutiae of my (and your) online activity is recorded for eternity and exploited to the fullest extent? What are you going to do about it?

I behave online with the understanding that my behaviour is essentially public.

PS - how come all website product recommendations still suck? Data collection is rather ahead of data usage it seems...

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by SCdF » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:27 PM UTC

garaetjjte wrote: post #36

How it knows how many cores CPU have?

Note that it's how many threads, not cores. I have a this CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/84985/Intel-Core-i5-5257U-Proc... which the websites believes is 4 cores when really it's 2.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by ragebol » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:32 PM UTC

kagamine wrote: post #52

pluma wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't know Austrians have Dutch accents.

Where are you all getting Dutch from? He sounds generic Euro speaking English to me.

My first thought was "Hey, a also Dutch guy, heh".

Also the credit say its a Dutch creation: https://clickclickclick.click/credits

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by ragebol » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:33 PM UTC

tirant wrote: post #50

lucb1e wrote: post #43

Turns out this was made not more than 10 minutes walking from where I am right now. Kind of cool to see.

and that is...?

Eindhoven, Netherlands (Source: https://clickclickclick.click/credit)

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by hrrsn » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:39 PM UTC

necessity wrote: post #42

danfromberlin wrote: post #34

Who else feels a sense of horrible dread and frustration that every minutiae of my (and your) online activity is recorded for eternity and exploited to the fullest extent? What are you going to do about it?

Well the site doesn't even work if you have NoScript, which is the bare minimum to have...

I wouldn't consider it bare minimum. Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by SilkRoadie » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:40 PM UTC

corecoder wrote: post #31

Has anybody granted the camera permission?

Yep. It took a picture, insulted me then turned off the camera :D

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by bpicolo » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:48 PM UTC

SCdF wrote: post #54

garaetjjte wrote: post #36

How it knows how many cores CPU have?

Note that it's how many threads, not cores. I have a this CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/84985/Intel-Core-i5-5257U-Proc... which the websites believes is 4 cores when really it's 2.

It's logical cores vs physical cores.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Post by wtbob » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:48 PM UTC

hrrsn wrote: post #57

necessity wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the site doesn't even work if you have NoScript, which is the bare minimum to have...

I wouldn't consider it bare minimum. Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

> Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

More accurately, most of the web is broken, whether or not NoScript is installed — it's just that you can see that it's broken when NoScript is installed.