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A bit of an edge case this. I know for me I mute my speakers permanently when using TOR in-case I encounter a shock page like Lemon Party or Goatse [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site
Been using it for a few months now and have found it invaluable.
Wait what? How can a webpage play a sound if my speakers are muted? How do they bypass the little sound notification on my tabs? >If the Tor user has his phone somewhere nearby and if certain types of apps are on his phone, then his mobile device will ping back one or more advertisers with details about his device, so the advertiser can build an advertising profile on the user, linking his computer with his phone. Th…
TorBrowser has Javascript disabled by default, doesn't that mean you have to first 'trick' targets into visiting the webpage, and then trick them into turning on js?
A bit of an edge case this. I know for me I mute my speakers permanently when using TOR in-case I encounter a shock page like Lemon Party or Goatse [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site
This hosts file is updated regularly to help prevent accidentally stumbling upon (shock|malicious|etc) style sites: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts Been using it for a few months now and have found it invaluable.
Surely the user would have had to approve microphone access for the app first, and it'd better have a good excuse.
Even then, does e.g. iOS allow backgrounded apps to listen in on the microphone ? Pretty sure only Siri has that level of privilege.
Has this whole ultrasound beacon thing taken off in the ad world ? Seems to (thankfully) require quite active user involvement to be able to work.
TorBrowser has Javascript disabled by default, doesn't that mean you have to first 'trick' targets into visiting the webpage, and then trick them into turning on js?
It's IE-specific, though, so won't work in a Tor browser.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bg...
TorBrowser has Javascript disabled by default, doesn't that mean you have to first 'trick' targets into visiting the webpage, and then trick them into turning on js?
I wonder if bgsound [1] attribute is still honored by modern browsers. It's IE-specific, though, so won't work in a Tor browser. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bg...
TorBrowser has Javascript disabled by default, doesn't that mean you have to first 'trick' targets into visiting the webpage, and then trick them into turning on js?
I wonder if bgsound [1] attribute is still honored by modern browsers. It's IE-specific, though, so won't work in a Tor browser. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bg...
In what world is that ever a sane thing to do?