I got "Subject has run script to click on the button 10 times in one second" by using xdotool click --delay 10 --repeat 100 1, wonder whether that's checking timing or just assuming nobody clicks that fast.
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
#92Looking at the source of the page, its own description is
"A browser-based game on online profiling"
which is even better than the current HN title.
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#93Wow this is very nice. It is like my dream. The inline aggregations are really cool too. Great demo!
EDIT: First saw this on mobile. Didn't realize there was sound. Distracting for me. Wish it wasn't there. (Well done, though.)
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a difference though. I can selectively turn things on / off. If I have to turn on >5 websites to see the content it suddenly has less value and I shrug and close
I really can't understand the people that browse the internet without JS. Like what's the point? JS is part of the web, deal with it.
I am dealing with it by not visiting homepages that rely on JavaScript.
The point is I do not want a bunch of insecure code running on my computer just to read some text, which is what I usually do in a browser.
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#95This 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)
or may be this:
window.setInterval(function(){ [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('a'), function (el){el.click();});},500)
Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
#96Who 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?
It's true that everything that can be recorded will be recorded, but the actual way to not bring attention to you is to let everything be recorded. NoScript/Ghostery/etc users are actually the outliers. Similar to what happens with Tor.
I can find relief in the fact that it's extremely unlikely someone will look for your specific data because of the sheer volume of it. Website owners will just look at some charts and metrics in their analytics platform and that's it.
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#97Who 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…
> they don't seem to be able to use it well
You are implicitly assuming that this won't change. Databases persist indefinitely.
> The information is only valid for hours or days.
This simply isn't true. You seem to be only thinking about single data points, not the entire picture about your life that is painted when you aggregate that all of the captured data. For example, timestamps of your clicks build a pattern about when you use your computer, and the domain names you have visited (including the order you visited them) probably gives a reasonably accurate estimation of your political views, personal beliefs, and other data that you haven't shared on the web. (Bayesian analysis, machine learning, and other modern analysis methods do amazing things with minimal data)
> I guess
It might be a good idea to not base your risk analysis on a guess. If you have no other option and have guess the level of risk, you should be assume the worse. Assuming benevolence (or incompetence) without evidence is incredibly foolish.
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#98It looks like all the audio files are stored as numbered mp3's on AWS, so those interested can grab all of them pretty simply. My personal favorite is the, "Oh, for fucks sake": https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi... There's a song as well: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi...
Why do I know that song? Isn't it in Moulin Rouge or something?
It's Nature Boy, originally recorded by Nat King Cole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw - it's one of those songs that's been recorded by a ton of artists from that era. I personally heard Ella Fitzgerald's version first.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
<3
Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
#100It looks like all the audio files are stored as numbered mp3's on AWS, so those interested can grab all of them pretty simply. My personal favorite is the, "Oh, for fucks sake": https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi... There's a song as well: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi...
Why do I know that song? Isn't it in Moulin Rouge or something?
Its a pretty old jazz standard by Nat King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy
There are tons of versions and variations of it
It does in fact show up in Moulin Rouge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCvBztYs_A