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How airtight is my current setup?
* Firefox with third party cookies blocked
* uBlock Origin with the usual blocklists
* PiHole
I do not understand the complacency of people. Maybe they think that their freedom is unassailable? The commercial surveillance industry is a real threat. It exploits citizens' data and in doing so serves the dictatorial interests of government and the amoral activities of capitalism. The surveillance industry is also inept, and cybercriminals and state actors will get the data eventually.
Because there are no noticeable effects. You get really well-targeted ads once in a while, but that's about it. Fighting back, on the other hand, brings a few inconveniences.
As a customer I would give them all info they need if they paid be a small sum compared to what they spend with absurd technologies and time. Maybe it would even make their product cheaper, increasing demand and further developing the economy! I mean: in theory, if they target us better, it would be cheaper to market, therefore allowing smaller prices - right !? Most people don't outright say it, but we're not only b…
Do you really want them to be able sell information about you like "Heavy home alcohol purchaser" to whoever pays them?
they can already. but as you can see, it's more often than not wrong information. There's so much scam the scammers scam themselves. Also, I couldn't care less, honestly. If I were a "Heavy home alcohol purchaser", perhaps I'd like to receive latest news related to that and promotions? I don't think privacy is the matter here at all. I think it's a problem with how we perceive our economy, which molds our entire life and death. And I get just honestly astonished by the stupidity reigning all over. Seeing how much attention a lot of groups devote to such concerns is only a leftover from the fact that real problems are not being addressed. Our focus as a collective is devoted to making money. People do everything for it. And who could blame them? If they don't have money they won't have a house, food, medical treatment, transportation, peace of mind, shelter from storms and cold, books, etc etc etc in most cases. At the same time, to make money they have to spend money. It's indeed maddening.
It'd be useful if the author revealed how she managed to obtain her data. I am pretty sure that a request with just your real name wouldn't reveal much. I assume that most data is collected under some identifier which isn't matched to your real name in order to thwart this kind of request.
There is a form[1] linked in their privacy policy[2], which doesn't work and tells me I'm not inside the EU or California, which I am. [1]: https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/data-subject-rights/ [2]: https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/
> There are sites (like wwe.com) where after you have successfully located the preference to opt out from everything it shows a "processing" screen which is stuck at 98% for about a minute. But accept is "processed" in an instant. How desperate does one have to be to work as a developer on projects like this?
earning your food and housing tokens is way better doing something like this than a lot of other things.
I guarantee that any engineer working on that product could get another equally well-compensated job which is not so morally bankrupt.
Maybe a bit of topic, but since we all should pay cashless, because of corona, what info does a shop get about me, if I pay with a debit card or credit card? Has someone a data sample? And what company's get (buy) information about what I bought with my debit card?
The shop can correlate all of your purchases (down to individual items) into a single purchaser profile tied to your credit card number -- basically the same as if you used a loyalty card with all of your purchases. If they can ever gain the ability to link a credit card with an identity, (say, via a credit card purchase that uses your loyalty card) then they can link multiple credit card profiles together.
In terms of data flow, it mostly goes the other way. It allows the shops to sell this data about you to others. Your credit card company does this, of course, but the only "direct" visibility they get is to the establishment. "In an average month, _trampeltier spends $x at grocery stores, $y at liquor stores, $z at tobacco shops", etc. They don't learn the actual itemized purchases without cooperation from shops (who of course have this data). Though I wouldn't be surprised if that was built into credit card processing agreements at this point, who knows.
Extension idea: A chrome or firefox extension that allows me to automatically choose the minimum cookie settings for most websites that use a standardised “consent solution”. I.e. if it is a consent solution by quantcast it automatically opt-outs of all cookies.
It'd be useful if the author revealed how she managed to obtain her data. I am pretty sure that a request with just your real name wouldn't reveal much. I assume that most data is collected under some identifier which isn't matched to your real name in order to thwart this kind of request.
I actually e-mailed to the author a year ago to ask that very question. Her answer was that she provided her cookie ID to Quantcast and then asked for any data associated with that ID. She also promised me to include that information in the article to prevent confusion, but she never did. Ironically, Quantcast only knew her real identity after the request.
Extension idea: A chrome or firefox extension that allows me to automatically choose the minimum cookie settings for most websites that use a standardised “consent solution”. I.e. if it is a consent solution by quantcast it automatically opt-outs of all cookies. does anybody know whether this already exists?
Or alternatively, hide the popup prompt from showing up at the first place as I found myself clicking "Consent". That tends to be a quicker path to getting things done than figuring out whatever wordings the designer came up with decline.