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Can't this be easily bypassed by Facebook? Given the amount of information usable to fingerprint browsers with JS enabled can't FB do some basic tricks like IP + WebRTC local IP + WebGL fingerprint + Canvas Fingerprint , etc...?
I would like to isolate every website I visit into a container, such that cookies or other tracking mechanisms are unable to be effective while on other pages.
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This would let Google know these accounts are affiliated with the same person on your network, whereas containers won't necessarily provide that assumption. Right?
If they wanted to they could associate them other ways by just looking at the IP address and/or browser fingerprinting.
Your home device may not live in such a family, but it's hard for Google to determine that.
We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…
If you're using Firefox, go to about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to false.
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Doesn't Privacy Badger do about the same, but more granular and breaking fewer things?
By not breaking things, Privacy Badger will essentially let some cookies and trackers pass through which aren't cross tracking but these could leave behind a trail. Some will stay dormant until activated. CAD or any similar cookie deleting add-on will essentially kill any cookie that isn't required for your active tabs. This way nothing is left behind to track or trail you.
can someone explain why this is necessary? shouldn't anything that happens outside of any site stay outside that site, why a special extension just for facebook?
Let’s say you go to example.com and they’re using a Facebook Pixel for analytics - so example.com can continue marketing that widget to you after you’ve left their site. Well, when you visit example.com/shop/widget1 you essentially load a 1x1 pixel image from the url ads.facebook.com/pixel?metadata=goes-here and you web browser sends your Facebook cookie along side the request (as it does for every request to .facebo…
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It's smart – my only complaint when seeing this is "how come nobody's focusing on Google?"
Mozilla is paid by Google. WHy would they antagonize their own parent company?
We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…
When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.