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Those are some rose tinted glasses. Not having to drive a check to the city utility office to pay the power bill is quite the improvement.
You can mail checks you know.
Isn't it forbidden on the EU anyways - thanks to GDPR?
Has anyone ever thought that RSS doesn't have a fingerprint? Because the sites that still offer feeds, at least those for which a feed makes sense, well, you can read them comfortably via RSS.
On the pros of fingerprinting: it's practically the only consistent tool to prevent malicious use in certain usecases, such as app hosting and similar bot protection. Email validation doesn't work. Ip blocking doesn't work. Captcha? Kind of. Fingerprinting? Very efficient.
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Here you go: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurat... It's a better explanation that I can provide.
Oh! Now I wonder, if crowdsec could issue bans based on that
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> Randal had a long career of good takes, until around 2016 when they stopped being objectively good. Specifically it was at this point in 2016: https://xkcd.com/1756/ > I’m not kidding at all, that my guess is he was doing drugs and stopped. I don’t know if he stopped or started, but something changed.
Coming our against a candidate that literally said the words "grab them by the pussy" is a bad thing?
His traffic and hot takes dropped and his influence declined to almost nothing… maybe those things aren’t unrelated?
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Note that one very simple mitigation for browser fingerprinting is to simply run different browsers for "the business Internet" and "the fun Internet". You may need to do this anyway, because so many business sites only work on Chrome, with Javascript enabled, no VPN, no adblocker, and pop-ups enabled. But then you might use Chrome (which tracks everything you do anyway) for all your banking, SaaS, government tasks,…
I don't think separate browsers is a very effective mitigation. If both browsers are running on the same machine, from the same ip address, using the same email address for logins, the same phone number for 2FA, it will be pretty clear that both browsers represent the same person. Even cross-device identity tracking is a real thing.
IP address is covered by VPN or Tor.
We really need a browser (or several) that aren't effectively controlled by private interests (such as corporations). Basically they are used as spy-tools. Many anti-features are pushed into them - a simple example is the disable-right-click functionality. I do understand that some of this have a useful functionality (for instance during an exam on-campus-site, to restrict what the students may do), but I always hate…
> a simple example is the disable-right-click functionality This is a part of a W3C browser spec and every web browser has to implement it. But you're right that people writing the spec work for companies selling web browsers.
Firefox w/ the Arkenfox user.js is probably as good as it gets in terms of privacy. By default, this config burns cookies on exit, standardizes the time zone to UTC, spoofs the canvas fingerprint, and does other helpful things. Basically, it makes Firefox expose the same information as the Tor browser. In addition, I block most known advertizing/tracking domains at the DNS level (I run my own server, and use Hagezi's…