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Regulators really need to cut them down to size. Was bad enough during anti-trust era in the US...now we're dealing with multinational entities the size of countries. Can't let that get out of hand or we'll end up living under corporations not governments.
Does blocking Google Tag Manager help? The site you're talking to can still read your data, but most third party sites can be cut off. Privacy Badger will let you block Google Tag Manager, and while it warns you that some sites will break, few do.
It would be interesting to purposely feed a bogus GTM cookie though. It might actually throw their tracking and fingerprinting off if somehow you were able to send random GTM tags on every request.
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Sites preferring geolocation over Accept-Language as a means of picking the language is one of my pet peeves. Preferring geolocation over a logged in user's stored setting is beyond absurd.
This was so annoying when visiting Poland recently. I don't speak Polish. Even after setting my preferred language on my Google account , Google Search was still speaking Polish to me.
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This was so annoying when visiting Poland recently. I don't speak Polish. Even after setting my preferred language on my Google account , Google Search was still speaking Polish to me.
Ha, I even started to receive spam mail in Polish (kind of "we got your webcam, give us money"). They're clearly using the collected data and are subject to the same problems.
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The largest browser is owned by a surveillance firm
Why anyone would use Chrome blows my mind a bit. Brave is a superior browser in every single aspect of a browser and as of rn - you do not see ads on the Internet. It's such a no brainer, I can't comprehend it.
We have kernel level anti cheat systems for games. So how about kernel level anti tracking? Browsers use system calls to provide the information used for fingerprinting the device, so why not intercept these calls and lie. Have all users present an identical fingerprints and we're back to pre google times. Yes, we lose some important functionality, but maybe it's a price worth paying? Never mind the other elephants i…
I see this going in the opposite direction first - TPM-backed kernel level fingerprinting. Surely you have nothing to hide…
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Ha, I even started to receive spam mail in Polish (kind of "we got your webcam, give us money"). They're clearly using the collected data and are subject to the same problems.
Wait, how would that work for scammers?
OT but anyone else finds it ironic that we had multiple articles telling us how Forbes publishes AI generated articles way outside their expertise and still we're seeing Forbes articles regularly on HN? Like, I know that apparently this one is a personal blog, but why does anyone even set up a blog at Forbes. Sometimes I wonder about this. And actually, even when knowing it's a personal blog and me a serious, I canno…
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Prime video is amazing for this; in Germany but only dubs available? Admit defeat that the orig audio is somehow not available but not even English subtitles?!
That's a weird one. It's common for people to prefer the original audio, and most Germans understand English.