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Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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post #57

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Well the site doesn't even work if you have NoScript, which is the bare minimum to have...

I wouldn't consider it bare minimum. Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

That part of the web hates the user so win win.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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post #57

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Well the site doesn't even work if you have NoScript, which is the bare minimum to have...

I wouldn't consider it bare minimum. Most of the web is broken with NoScript installed.

There is a difference though. I can selectively turn things on / off.

If I have to turn on >5 websites to see the content it suddenly has less value and I shrug and close

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Who else feels a sense of horrible dread and frustration that every minutiae of my (and your) online activity is recorded for eternity and exploited to the fullest extent? What are you going to do about it?

Horrible dread? Can't say I do. If I get a relevant ad from a keyword in my email, that seems like a pretty minor event in my life.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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I didn't know Austrians have Dutch accents.

Where are you all getting Dutch from? He sounds generic Euro speaking English to me.

A large enough sample of Europeans speaking English. Many of them are easily distinguished with a bit of practice. This guy is definitely Dutch.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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How it knows how many cores CPU have?

navigator.hardwareConcurrency

and if that's not supported but web workers are, you can guess that information pretty damn accurately by doing work in an increasing number of threads and looking for where you stop seeing little-to-no slowdown.

Re: A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

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Who else feels a sense of horrible dread and frustration that every minutiae of my (and your) online activity is recorded for eternity and exploited to the fullest extent? What are you going to do about it?

Horrible dread? Can't say I do. If I get a relevant ad from a keyword in my email, that seems like a pretty minor event in my life.

You do know that the ad won't necessarily be relevant to you, right? The ads will be "relevant" according to the advertisers who think you're the kind of target they want to trick into buying their product.

Regarding that "minor event": it is minor in isolation, but the point is that you are generating a large amount of those events that are being aggregated into databases where they are unlikely to be deleted. The ad(s) you might get isn't important. What you should be concerned about is the detailed pattern-of-life analysis that can be done at any time in the future by anybody that buys a copy of that database.

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