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A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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

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Thank goodness for devtools... for (var lazyisgood = 0; lazyisgood

Subject has run script to click on the button ten times within one second

This is as far as i got.. https://clickclickclick.click/#4650e8c30d3089e27cf1a931bdf06...

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

#72
post #53

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...

> website product recommendations still suck

Targeted advertising isn't about giving you good recommendations. It's about advertisers picking which demographic they want to influence. It may be presented as a "recommendation", but it's still an ad.

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

#73

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?

Not really horrified. Yes they save it, but they don't seem to be able to use it well. The ads I get on Facebook are sometimes really interesting (i.e. targeted well), on other pages it's mostly stuff I bought a while ago or topics where I don't even have a clue why they think that could be interesting.

And even though they can save it forever, it's outdated pretty quickly. If someone has information that I clicked a button 5 times when I visited a page in '09, this will have zero value now. The information is only valid for hours or days.

I guess most of this information is used to test behavior on pages and to optimize them. And I can only support that. Tracking like this is the reason why popular pages are intuitive. They perform A/B testing extensively to see what works best. I don't see an issue with that.

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

#74
post #6

This reminded me that notch web game[1]. Both kept me interested and I find them a very pleasant form of art. [1] http://game.notch.net/drowning/

reminded me of The Stanley Parable.

if anyone was humored, intrigued, or moved by either this or Notch's "drowning".... you will love The Stanley Parable. don't do any Googling or reading on it before you play though. go in blind. i wish i could play it again for the first time.

The Stanley Parable is literally one of my favorite things ever.

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

#76
post #6

This reminded me that notch web game[1]. Both kept me interested and I find them a very pleasant form of art. [1] http://game.notch.net/drowning/

I had a lot of fun automate this game and see the results.

setInterval(function() {document.getElementsByTagName("a")[Math.floor(Math.random() * document.getElementsByTagName("a").length)].click()}, 5000)

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

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subject has run script to click on the button ten times within one second

This is as far as i got.. https://clickclickclick.click/#4650e8c30d3089e27cf1a931bdf06...

this seems to have overwritten my session, I now have your score

Lucky I had it open in another browser

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

#78
post #6

This reminded me that notch web game[1]. Both kept me interested and I find them a very pleasant form of art. [1] http://game.notch.net/drowning/

reminded me of The Stanley Parable. if anyone was humored, intrigued, or moved by either this or Notch's "drowning".... you will love The Stanley Parable. don't do any Googling or reading on it before you play though. go in blind. i wish i could play it again for the first time. The Stanley Parable is literally one of my favorite things ever.

I have no idea what the Stanley Parable is. So without googling it, how should one find it to play?

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

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reminded me of The Stanley Parable. if anyone was humored, intrigued, or moved by either this or Notch's "drowning".... you will love The Stanley Parable. don't do any Googling or reading on it before you play though. go in blind. i wish i could play it again for the first time. The Stanley Parable is literally one of my favorite things ever.

I have no idea what the Stanley Parable is. So without googling it, how should one find it to play?

Go buy it on Steam!

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

#80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reminded me of The Stanley Parable. if anyone was humored, intrigued, or moved by either this or Notch's "drowning".... you will love The Stanley Parable. don't do any Googling or reading on it before you play though. go in blind. i wish i could play it again for the first time. The Stanley Parable is literally one of my favorite things ever.

I have no idea what the Stanley Parable is. So without googling it, how should one find it to play?

Steam.
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