Make shadow profiles illegal.
Can be something like, companies can’t store PII without getting explicit user consent.
TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
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#82Except in the EU, I suppose?
Why would they, considering nobody gives a shit about punishing GDPR breaches? Google and Facebook are still around and do the same.
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#83Make shadow profiles illegal.
GDPR would already outlaw those - the problem is that nobody is interested in enforcing it sufficiently to actually deter such behaviour.
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#84Tech savvy folks, is it enough to run Privacy badger and uBlock origin (on Firefox)? I also let Firefox use its enhanced tracking protections.
It depends what you're trying to solve. I would say it will lower the resolution of any "profiles" built on you in aggregate, but it does not stop a profile being built.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look, I do run uBO. It doesn't even completely block JS, yet it still routinely breaks very basic pages, and I have to use a lot of webdev and industry knowledge to even try to unbreak them without entirely turning off blocking. So no, for most people who want to use mainstream websites, just turning off JS is not a real option. That this is a dystopic scenario does not change the practical reality.
I never have to turn off uBO to get pages to work. Am I just visiting really boring sites, or is there a default setting I should change to be more strict amd break more pages?
I don't know, I guess it could be that turning on the "I know what I'm doing" matrix features made it more strict? It seems like every e-commerce site and most blog/news sites want to host all their images offsite (mostly CDNs I assume) in some weird JS-mediated way. Anything with a captcha breaks. Any purchase checkout process that involves other domains, which is almost all of them, can be counted on to break. If someone can tell me I'm just misunderstanding what's going on, I'd love to spend less time messing with websites' guts and still be reasonably protected.
Re: TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
#86Anything we can toss into the HOSTS file to address this?
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never have to turn off uBO to get pages to work. Am I just visiting really boring sites, or is there a default setting I should change to be more strict amd break more pages?
I don't know, I guess it could be that turning on the "I know what I'm doing" matrix features made it more strict? It seems like every e-commerce site and most blog/news sites want to host all their images offsite (mostly CDNs I assume) in some weird JS-mediated way. Anything with a captcha breaks. Any purchase checkout process that involves other domains, which is almost all of them, can be counted on to break. If s…
uBO can break sites, but in my experience doesn't to the degree that you're describing. Perhaps you should clear all settings and re-install the extension once and see if that helps?
Do you maybe have other content blocking extensions running at the same time as uBO that are causing 'clashes'?
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#88The TikTok pixel is not actually a pixel like in the old days. It is not a 1x1 transparent image loaded from their servers. It is executable javascript code. All you have to do to stop 99% of the corporate spying is disable unsafe remote code execution. It's hard to believe I have to say that after the many decades of people getting it drilled into their heads "Do not open random email attachments" but here we are in…
Shouldnt this have been rendered impossible with Apple and Google’s crackdown on third-party cookies? Whether it a 1x1 tracking pixel or a full-blown Javascript, Apple’s ITP protection would seem to render it unables to track people across websites. The key word is SEEM. I have no idea regarding all the contradictory news coming out of all the camps. I posted a question on StackOverflow with a significant bounty that…
I can shed some light on this maybe, don't have a SO account. You're completely right about "SEEM". It does do enough that it significantly lowers the resolution of data and ability for systems to infer your behaviors / persona. It will force more of the ad ecosystem to server to server data pass through: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...
I mention it in a post above, but data brokers have existed for a decade, which don't really care about any of this. Your email/phone/credit card + purchase behavior for instance, is likely sent to 3rd parties (as md5/sha hashed values) It boils down to sample resolution and sample size. Javascript made it really easy for literally every website to collect browse behaviors. ITP makes the skill ceiling / investment to collect this data much higher.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look, I do run uBO. It doesn't even completely block JS, yet it still routinely breaks very basic pages, and I have to use a lot of webdev and industry knowledge to even try to unbreak them without entirely turning off blocking. So no, for most people who want to use mainstream websites, just turning off JS is not a real option. That this is a dystopic scenario does not change the practical reality.
this may be daydreaming too shallowly, but I wonder if basic Javascript UI patterns could be identified by some tool. Something along the lines of a new pane showing up in the Developer Tools that semantically identifies the roles of certain Javascript. * This block of code ensures these UI elements are synched among each other. * This block of code sends this UI data to this server address. Something that gives a ro…
Even without that tool, HTML continues to evolve and add common “components” that people have used JavaScript to create for decades, which work without (or with minimal) JS. For example, and , , , and more.
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#90> You can’t stop data collection from the tech industry altogether, but with a few simple steps you can make a dent in the amount of information that’s being collected. > Use privacy-protecting browser extensions. You can add extensions to your browser that will do a lot to protect your privacy. One is Disconnect, made by the company that performed our TikTok investigation. The Disconnect extension shows you how webs…
You dont need UBlock with Brave, brave Shields do what UBlock does while being faster(rust) and integrated in the browser.