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>“also giving people the privacy protections they expect.” My expectation is you don't fucking store any data about me to be used for advertisements/AI/etc and everything is opt-in, period. Where is that option?
I hope they catch terrorists and criminals with this
Does blocking Google Tag Manager help? The site you're talking to can still read your data, but most third party sites can be cut off. Privacy Badger will let you block Google Tag Manager, and while it warns you that some sites will break, few do.
We have kernel level anti cheat systems for games. So how about kernel level anti tracking? Browsers use system calls to provide the information used for fingerprinting the device, so why not intercept these calls and lie. Have all users present an identical fingerprints and we're back to pre google times. Yes, we lose some important functionality, but maybe it's a price worth paying? Never mind the other elephants i…
This is what the Tor Browser is designed to do, and it does it very well (all in userspace no less). The main drawback is that some sites don't render as nicely and occasionally a site simply doesn't work.
We have kernel level anti cheat systems for games. So how about kernel level anti tracking? Browsers use system calls to provide the information used for fingerprinting the device, so why not intercept these calls and lie. Have all users present an identical fingerprints and we're back to pre google times. Yes, we lose some important functionality, but maybe it's a price worth paying? Never mind the other elephants i…
I've been wondering how hard it would be to make a completely fingerprint-proof browser.
One idea would be to run it in a deterministic emulator. All machine code instructions would be guaranteed to take exactly the same amount of time to execute on every machine, as far as is observable to the browser, and threads would be scheduled in the same order every time. Zero access to the host system through fonts, WebGL etc.
This would mean a massive performance penalty, but modern computers are fast enough that it might be usable for many sites. You could have a small number of discrete speed tiers, where you use the fastest tier that your computer is capable of.
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Sites preferring geolocation over Accept-Language as a means of picking the language is one of my pet peeves. Preferring geolocation over a logged in user's stored setting is beyond absurd.
With weirdly sticky behavior too once you’ve left that area. My google sign in prompt was in Italian for over a decade after logging in there once on a family vacation. Only with the latest login revamp did that setting finally get purged. Everything else was always english, profile set to english etc.
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Yes. The browser innocently gives away tons of information for surveillance capitalism corporations to leech. It is a if the web and browser developers lived in an innocent world
The largest browser is owned by a surveillance firm
It's such a no brainer, I can't comprehend it.
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Personally, I went the nuclear route with a Pihole. My devices can’t talk to Google.
This works until you start living with someone who gets frustrated by things like sponsored results not working (completely fair, because they are often highly relevant).
I couldn't believe what they were saying. Their words didn't make sense to me. I ended up in removing all adblock- and privacy-related settings in our router - it felt like a defeat.
Like, I know that apparently this one is a personal blog, but why does anyone even set up a blog at Forbes. Sometimes I wonder about this.
And actually, even when knowing it's a personal blog and me a serious, I cannot really take it serious anymore when seeing the Forbes URL. I am more inclined to skip chapters, to look for AI slop, and to not take the views of the author as independent. Not consciously, but subconsciously.