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Ok, so two trips but not any two trips. It requires a lot more knowledge of the person. For someone you know well why would you even need to look at the data?
One could trivially establish multiple trips that anyone with even slightly public social media has taken.
Who is able to get access to my browser history? I thought it was just my ISP/VPN, which can obviously track me better in other ways.
Does Mozilla Pocket get browsing history if it isn't disabled? Last I heard it's not using E2E encryption and Mozilla still hasn't open sourced the server side of it.
https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...
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> Did this research... establish better numbers around it or something? >> However, this time around, since the data was collected from Firefox itself and not through a web page performing a time-lengthy CSS test, the data was much more accurate and reliable. Furthermore, the data Mozilla researchers collected is also about the same type of data that today's online analytics companies also collect about users — eithe…
Needs to be specified that this was an opt-in study that you had to agree to.
>> The new experiment got underway between July 16 and August 13, 2019, when Mozilla prompted Firefox users to take part of this experiment.
>> Mozilla researchers said that more than 52,000 users agreed to take part and agreed to provide anonymous browsing data.
To this me and a friend started sketching on a VPN/HTTP proxy that will have a set of say 100 outgoing IPs, look at the domains being connected to and distribute request destinations over IPs. So e.g. Google would always see the same IP, which would be different from the one Facebook sees. While access times cross-references and identification is still theoretically possible, it should be an entirely different game.…
> While access times cross-references and identification is still theoretically possible, it should be an entirely different game. How are you planning to handle communicating identity across sites with link decoration?
There are already extensions that do this. Previous discussion:
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Consider for example, that many pages use remotely loaded resources. I would think things like Facebook/Twitter like buttons or Google Fonts might make it to assemble this history. Sites like FB are said to maintain "Shadow Profiles" of people, even when those people aren't using their service directly. I suppose in theory any sufficiently shared infrastructures such as AWS/Cloudflare could do so as well, but they ar…
I've started using decentraleyes, hoping to mitigate this issue
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Needs to be specified that this was an opt-in study that you had to agree to.
Is no one in this thread going to read this article? Seriously, it isn't that long. RTFM >> The new experiment got underway between July 16 and August 13, 2019, when Mozilla prompted Firefox users to take part of this experiment. >> Mozilla researchers said that more than 52,000 users agreed to take part and agreed to provide anonymous browsing data.
To this me and a friend started sketching on a VPN/HTTP proxy that will have a set of say 100 outgoing IPs, look at the domains being connected to and distribute request destinations over IPs. So e.g. Google would always see the same IP, which would be different from the one Facebook sees. While access times cross-references and identification is still theoretically possible, it should be an entirely different game.…
Look up browser fingerprinting. It’s a lot more complicated than just obscuring IPs.
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Is no one in this thread going to read this article? Seriously, it isn't that long. RTFM >> The new experiment got underway between July 16 and August 13, 2019, when Mozilla prompted Firefox users to take part of this experiment. >> Mozilla researchers said that more than 52,000 users agreed to take part and agreed to provide anonymous browsing data.
Clearly not actually anonymous browsing data in actuality though... which is why we should always take claims that telemetry data is anonymized with a grain of salt.
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Of course that case will fail but for almost all cases if you know something like that you took x bus to work and then a week later you took one to the mall its now possible to find all of their trips. For someone you know somewhat well its not hard to find 2 trips they took and then be able to find all of their trips.
Ok, so two trips but not any two trips. It requires a lot more knowledge of the person. For someone you know well why would you even need to look at the data?
As an employer, maybe I can find out an employee wasn't home sick when they said, but took the bus to a station that only serves a competitor's business. Etc.