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My brain is unwilling to accept this. What is the purpose of those choices then?
Since they introduced the square-selecting captchas I have always assumed that they use it for identifying the user. I bet that depending on how you solve the captchas they can identify who you are if their system already has a theory of who you might be.
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Serious follow-up: I've always been fairly apathetic towards companies tracking me because I don't see too many plausible situations that would end up truly affecting me negatively. Do you have any examples (preferably that have happened in the past, but hypothetical are okay too) of what can go wrong if the tracking information falls in the wrong hands? Sure, street addresses, SSN's, credit card numbers would be bad…
You like Apple products and therefore you are a premium category customer. Dynamic pricing shown to you on websites will reflect that. Depending on the A/B rules in place you are paying a decent premium over someone with cheapo Android phone and looking for jobs in custodian services. If you think that is fair then I have a lovely Harbour Bridge in Sydney that I think I get you a great deal on.
Google's reCAPTCHA makes it impossible to use large portions of the web once you take reasonable measures to protect your privacy. The challenge will continuously fail, despite you spending time to carefully solve it. This cruel behavior is described in a patent [1] by Kyle Adams of Juniper Networks. [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661
Google's reCAPTCHA is cancer upon the web. Everyone should enable fingerprint block to shut this invasive and abusive garbage. If everyone would block it the website owners would have no choice other than to move to a different captcha system.
Google's reCAPTCHA makes it impossible to use large portions of the web once you take reasonable measures to protect your privacy. The challenge will continuously fail, despite you spending time to carefully solve it. This cruel behavior is described in a patent [1] by Kyle Adams of Juniper Networks. [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661
I dislike Google reCAPTCHA, however, it brought down contact form and comment spam to almost zero. (With the price of an unknown number of false positives and some frustrated users.)
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"But you told me to use Chrome." Google took over with shady practices, with the help of tech savvy people.
Not to mention Edge moving to the Chrome base; which further disenfranchises anyone from making sure it works in 'x' browser, anymore. " It works in Chrome and Edge, which is based on Chrome, so what's your problem, again? "
Firefox is playing its trump, the privacy, very well lately. This is very smart as the competition has no good answer. Equalizing on privacy level would go against their business model so they won't ever do it wholeheartedly. Trying out Firefox now...
More importantly it would go against the mission statement.
Mozilla isn't around to make money, it's around to make progress toward a mission. (Search revenue helps fund that, but revenue is not the end goal for Mozilla).
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Just as privacy conscious is a misleading statement. Choosing to migrate their default search to Google was a money grab by Firefox and that money is, in turn, 100% dependent upon tracking. I think this is why what limited privacy options Firefox does offer are entirely opt-in, and often hidden behind menus that your average user will probably never visit. By contrast Brave has had things such as blocking of fingerpr…
Note that Brave does not develop its own engine, piggybacking on Chromium instead. It's easy to play the righteous game when you're piggybacking on other people's work. DuckDuckGo and all alternative search engines are in the same boat. It can be argued that Brave has a harder dependency on Google than Mozilla does. Because Mozilla has not outsourced their core competencies. Just to give an example, with Manifest V3,…
They'll expose the webRequest API:
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1133767653472923648
And uBO + uMatrix will continue to be developed by gorhill for Brave, at least.
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Getting a targeted advertising that is likely relevant to you is probably one of the few positives of tracking. The issue people have with tracking is not 'what ad am I getting on a given website'. To get a targeted ad they need to maintain a database of privacy infringing information. 3rd parties having this data, and what they might do it with it (or who they might lose the data to) is what many people have an issu…
Serious follow-up: I've always been fairly apathetic towards companies tracking me because I don't see too many plausible situations that would end up truly affecting me negatively. Do you have any examples (preferably that have happened in the past, but hypothetical are okay too) of what can go wrong if the tracking information falls in the wrong hands? Sure, street addresses, SSN's, credit card numbers would be bad…
In Netherlands, prior to World War 2, they made a "comprehensive population registration system for administrative and statistical purposes", which included the ethnicity. As a result, the Netherlands had one of the highest death rates among Jews. (I can't find a good source for this though, unfortunately)
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Since they introduced the square-selecting captchas I have always assumed that they use it for identifying the user. I bet that depending on how you solve the captchas they can identify who you are if their system already has a theory of who you might be.
they're there for denying access to automated scripts.