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And? I used to work for a defense contractor, using the military complex money to instead pay for civil projects that actually benefit normal people. You can take money that comes from "I don't like this thing", and then spend it on "this benefits everyone".
If that's truly your rationale then you're deluding yourself: you can take money, for sure, but as soon as you act to aid the source of the money then you're complicit in whatever that source is doing. You might consider the positive aspects of your use of the money out with the negative aspects of your aiding murder, say, but that's not quite what you outlined.
Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
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Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
And? I used to work for a defense contractor, using the military complex money to instead pay for civil projects that actually benefit normal people. You can take money that comes from "I don't like this thing", and then spend it on "this benefits everyone".
Does the defense contractor rag on the military afterwards? You can take money from something, use it for good, but it's kinda funny when you start to claim the hands that feeds you is evil and bad.
Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#363It seems that almost weekly, I am reminded why I love Firefox because of some new thing Mozilla is doing. A lot of good decisions have been coming from them lately.
FF is my primary browser, yet people I know that work in security laugh at me as they claim FF is always the first browser to fail in the hacker games. I don't know enough about why, but I'd love for that to not be a thing. Taking into account my threat profile (types of sites I visit, JS blocking, etc), I feel the hacking risk is still a worth while trade off for the lack of tracking.
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Seems like spammers wouldn't hire humans if they could fully automate it? That's about the best you could do as a defense.
Why do you assume they aren't automating it. The obvious thing if I'm a spammer is to hire humans to solve the problem, collect their output and feed it into my ML training. I now have the same dataset that google is using, for my ML. Actually I'm not sure I need to go to full ML: after a few rounds I can probably just use image compare (not ML) and just feed humans images that I haven't seen before. Of course round…
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I would too, but clearly most people wouldn't, otherwise advertisement wouldn't be such a popular way to monetize apps and websites (and Google wouldn't be the behemoth that it is today). Actually I would also gladly pay for a decent search engine but even DuckDuckGo decided to monetize using ads, which IMO means that sooner or later if they're successful enough they'll become just as bad as the rest. Besides paying…
I’ve recently switched to startpage.com - they use Google for high quality search results, but anonymize all search requests and show non-personalized, non-tracking ads solely based on my current search term. Also, they’re based in Europe/Netherlands. I’m not affiliated with them. Just a happy user.
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Modern captchas are designed to be anti-human and use as for free training of their AI algorithms. We're slaves for free while Google benefits from this, both technologically and financially. Next captcha from google will be even more aggressive, you're not logged to Google = you're a bot, you can't access that content.
Next captcha from google will be even more aggressive, you're not logged to Google = you're a bot, you can't access that content. You may be right. But you know what: If I encounter captchas nowadays and unless I really need to get to that site it's "Fuck you very much!" time. I'm just not that interested in most of the web to make it woth my while and provide free work for Google.
I really hope the EU hits them hard with a GDPR investigation, the amount of identifiable data they collect with reCaptcha is unacceptable.
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#367I worked in the ad industry. Every web-browser including brave, tor,safari is uniquely identifiable even on same hardware. All the public computer researchers and browser vendors are years behind the techniques to fingerprint devices (probably 5+). Canvas, WebGl etc are techniques of the past. There are much more advanced ones, than can identify devices with completely uniquely (on both desktop and mobile) Also we kn…
1. There is magic css/js that can not only tell different browsers and devices apart, but can tell two phones from the same manufacturing run with the same software apart.
2. Despite the fact that this magic code would have to run in the client browser where its content, execution, and the data it sends back are all plainly visible to anyone who can hit ctrl-shift-j, no "public researcher or browser vendor" knows anything about it.
3. This technology is not used to combat ad fraud because of some weird conspiracy at Google.
It could be true, I suppose, but I don't see why anyone would believe this based on the evidence so far.
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17.62 bits on firefox, 11.0 on Tor, 17.63 on chrome. On firefox, the big contributors are HTTP headers (my native language is announced), hash of WebGl fingerprint and time zone. On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size. On chrome, they are system fonts, hash of canvas fingerprint, user agent, and time zone. I am not too concerned about the fingerprinting in firefox since I have strict block…
Panopticlick's numbers are extremely confusing and borderline useless. On my initial run, I got an overall entropy of 17.63. My two biggest identifiers were screen resolution (1000x595x24 which was approx 1/22000 browsers) and webgl hash (approx 1/3800 browsers). I fixed screen resolution to 1000x600x24 (approx 1/85 browsers) and disabled webgl hashing (approx 1/6 browsers) and the overall entropy did not change one…
As a side note, I ended up re-enabling system fonts because disabling them broke a large percentage of web sites' CSS.
Re: Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
#369I worked in the ad industry. Every web-browser including brave, tor,safari is uniquely identifiable even on same hardware. All the public computer researchers and browser vendors are years behind the techniques to fingerprint devices (probably 5+). Canvas, WebGl etc are techniques of the past. There are much more advanced ones, than can identify devices with completely uniquely (on both desktop and mobile) Also we kn…
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Thanks. I'd read the Wikipedia page, I'm just not clear why this process is allowed (or more importantly, why it can't be removed). Is there a legitimate use case for being able to read back pixels?
Literally any kind of image or photo manipulation, from an MS Paint-like webapp to Instagram-like photo filters.