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CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by vasco »

keybored wrote: post #49
h4kunamata wrote: post #47

>For years, the internet advertising industry has been sucking up our data, including our location data For years, people have been sharing everything they do, what they do, people they spent time with, where they live. Advertisement industry just adds more info to complete your profile, what you buy, what you watch, what you speak online, etc.

People here complain that programmers aren’t engineers because real engineers can accidentally kill people and get sued if they mess an equation up. Instead of just breaking a build or something. I think it’s more concerning that programmers seem to have no care or shame about designing systems that works against the users’ interests. Did you share something intimate in our chat? Well it’s not E2E, moron, we have tha…

A thief thinks everyone steals.

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

cdrnsf wrote: post #40

I have 26 apps on my phone. Of those, four are Safari extensions, one is a PWA and another I wrote myself. I use a restrictive nextDNS profile that also blocks Apple's native tracking (as best they can) and don't use social media. I feel like that's the best I can realistically do.

And you do realize your cellphone is constantly sharing your location with your cell phone company which is more than willing to give it to the government without a warrant.

Whatever you are doing is meaningless privacy theatre

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by tototrains »

Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism?

The only people who didn't understand this were either delusional or being paid not to.

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by pelotron »

tototrains wrote: post #53

Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism? The only people who didn't understand this were either delusional or being paid not to.

Well I didn't expect the leopards to eat _my_ face.

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by tlavoie »

legitster wrote: post #22
ducttape12 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither the government nor an ad agency needs to know where I am, no matter how "rough" the data is. It's none of their business.

At this point, your device is not giving anyone your location without explicit permission. So it really just comes down to your IP Address, which services do need.

I think the issue here is one of informed consent. You might say, "OK, this makes sense" when agreeing to location data for a weather app. In the context of whether it's going to hail soon, location is reasonable. What you only see in those GDPR-type banners is that the data is being re-sold off to 1001 "partners", none of whom are important for my hail-to-head concerns. Never mind all the cases where it's re-sold on to all the governments and personal-level creeps through aggregators.

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by CodeWriter23 »

tototrains wrote: post #53

Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism? The only people who didn't understand this were either delusional or being paid not to.

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Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

tototrains wrote: post #53

Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism? The only people who didn't understand this were either delusional or being paid not to.

I’m not sure that’s fair, the majority of the American population are pretty dumb due to the poor education system. Most weren’t alive for WW2 so they’ve not come very close to an authoritarian threat in the past either.

Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by derwiki »

hightrix wrote: post #57

Yet another reminder that everyone everywhere should be blocking all ads all the time. I don't say that lightly as absolutes tend to not be the appropriate solution, but an absolute stance of blocking ads is appropriate.

100%, this has been my soap box for years.

A very easy, effective, multi-layer setup:

1. Browser adblocker

2. Pi hole running locally

3. Pi hole at your home network router level

And 4, not as easy but effective, a firewall like Little Snitch

Edit: the other good news is your old data loses value quickly, so starting today is still very effective: you haven’t missed the boat yet!

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