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idk why, but they do
Got a source on retailers actively doing this?
Its harder to prove any specific stores are using any specific survailence product for marketing, but plenty of companies are offering it. Here' Samsung's take: https://web.archive.org/web/20230410052807/https://www.samsu...
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It would be amazing if you could build and send fake profiles of this information to create fake browser fingerprints and help track the trackers. Similarly, creating a lot of random noise here may help hide the true signal, or at least make their job a lot harder.
Unfortunately fingerprinting prevention/resistance tactics become a readily identifiable signal unto themselves. I.e., the 'random noise' becomes fingerprintable if not widely utilized. Everyone would need to be generating the same 'random noise' for any such tactics to be truly effective.
There are quite a few interesting tracking flows out there. My rent is paid through a company called Bilt. I discovered that when I shop at Walgreens now, Bilt sends me an email containing the full receipt of what I bought like so: > Hey [inahga], > > You shopped at Walgreens on 12/1/24 and earned Bilt Points with your > Neighborhood Pharmacy benefit. > > Items eligible for rewards > TOSTITOS HINT OF LIME RSTC 11OZ >…
This is called Level 3 data, and any merchant can choose to provide it for a reduction in the transaction fees they pay. Here's a small comment thread from a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41213632
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I think a big part of the ability of these shady companies pulling the brightest minds away from more clearly beneficial fields is that important flavors of ideology necessary to motivate people to take less lucrative work have been stripped from "business". There's a lot fewer appeals to art, history, cultural stewardship, or empire-building present in things like transportation, medicine, construction, etc. than th…
Doing things because they increase some non-monetary value has fallen out of fashion for sure. A colleague of mine recently shared, in a group social setting, a sense of disappointment that his daughter was studying to be a doctor. I was, as far as I could tell, the only one to note that there is practical utility to having doctors. But the "be part of our mission" was shown to be hollow over and over too. First and…
What would be the ideal response to such an absurd comment? At the time I found it hard to answer because she surprised me with that opinion.
Edit to note: the explanation should be compatible with a professional context. I don't want to scare my co workers or appear crazy/paranoid.
Does this apply to Brave browser?
What does happen if I turn off location/gps? I guess that location has to be quite imprecise.
EDIT: please ignore, author did it differently to what I expected.
A while ago a co worker told me "why would you care about your privacy? all my data is already out there anyway and what can even be done with it anyway". What would be the ideal response to such an absurd comment? At the time I found it hard to answer because she surprised me with that opinion. Edit to note: the explanation should be compatible with a professional context. I don't want to scare my co workers or appe…
"A Redding Police Department officer in 2021 was charged with six misdemeanors after being accused of accessing CLETS to set up a traffic stop for his fiancée's ex-husband, resulting in the man's car being towed and impounded, the local outlet A News Cafe reported. Court records show the officer was fired, but he was ultimately acquitted by a jury in the criminal case. He now works for a different police department 30 miles away."
California Law Enforcement Misused State Databases More Than 7,000 Times in 2023 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misu...