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by user17843 7y ago
It's more like a mixture of context and client-targeting (referer for example)
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by user17843 7y ago
I don't work in the field. I think part of the reason why my perspective diverges from yours is probably that your profession is extremely intransparent about what actually happens behind the curtain. Obviously people will speculate an
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by user17843 7y ago
because I never see any ads :P 20-30 percent of people use ad-blockers, and I think I already know the demographics compared to the exposed population. But for a serious argument, I refer to the studies on delayed gratification and the asso
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by user17843 7y ago
Aren't A/B tests super short-term and specific to single advertisers? In the end the money in the system is limited, and if one competitor achieves a high level of revenue via A/B testing, someone else probably loses that amo
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by user17843 7y ago
there are state-sponsered media like BBC, etc.
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by user17843 7y ago
Probably. I think it's a downward spiral, it only works because each player is forced to play along due to fundamentals of game theory. So what we are seeing is that the methods become more ruthless every day, but everyone needs to con
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by user17843 7y ago
All of this money and effort to create something that has never scientifically been proven to work: Super-targeted ads, instead of contextual ads. The context is already there. Each article on a newspaper already provides the context. What
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by user17843 7y ago
Should be easy to avoid with simply using another cookie jar or blocking third-party cookies. It seems the direct connection can only be made when a user is logged into a facebook or google profile. Otherwise the data can not be connected t
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by user17843 7y ago
The functionality is part of every decent password manager, which takes care of basically all your passwords, not the ones stored in your browser. So I don't understand the enthusiasm.
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by user17843 7y ago
There is "sexism" on both sides. Powerful women use it against powerless men, and vice versa. Ignoring one aspect over the other won't lead to lasting solutions. Since more men are leaders than women (men are naturally inclin
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by user17843 7y ago
It doesn't sound like scraping. What they do is they fetch the prices for their own products when the users browses a competitor. The prices of their competitors' products are already in the open, they won't need them. What t
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by user17843 7y ago
Imho it isn't relevant. The implication of OP is that the fact that they are female paints Google in a bad light, not that they were protest leaders. Corporations do not care about gender, it's all about power and control, and the
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by user17843 7y ago
> More like software companies whose installers 'helpfully' install their browser extension behind the users back. When there's a will, there is a way...
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by user17843 7y ago
Maybe no one really knows anymore why the feature was implemented that way in the first place. I think the post-mortem has shown that the biggest problem of mozilla is fragmentation of decision-making, and the existence of probably >50 s
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by user17843 7y ago
I don't understand this logic at all, it baffles me. Malware can do a lot of things, but I never heard of common software being designed under the assumption that malware has taken over the PC. The software I use is designed under the
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by user17843 7y ago
Someone please make a googlebot noindex web page with a list of participating websites, in an effort to make resistance against google go viral. If Google is reduced to basically product ads and news it will lose its relevance as a search e
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by user17843 7y ago
Chrome has been doing it since around 2016, it seems.
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by user17843 7y ago
1. from the perspective of firefox forks (Waterfox has around 200-300k daily users, which is a lot in this context) 2. from the perspective of the entire web (Waterfox has only around 200-300k daily users, which isn't a lot in this con
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by user17843 7y ago
The topic we are talking about doesn't imply the question of no security vs. high security, it is way more nuanced, and most Waterfox users probably enjoy a very high level of security due to the content blockers they use. Also I think
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by user17843 7y ago
I have observed a big anti-waterfox and anti-fork atmosphere in the Firefox Community. I don't think the criticism of Waterfox is honest, because the browser has been doing exceptionally well (always including critical bugs) for a one-
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by user17843 7y ago
> and is just as much a danger to online privacy as the rest of the Large Technology Companies like Google and Facebook how so?
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by user17843 7y ago
and that's an assumption you make that requires evidence. Your claim is that there is not only this kind of identification happening, but that it happens even if I have the common tracking blockers. Otherwise the blocklist in this thre
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by user17843 7y ago
OK, but how do you account for changing IP-Addresses? You would need to take one identifier that never changes. Maybe they have machine learning which combines a couple of factors and then create long-term profiles based on the likelihood o
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by user17843 7y ago
woah, I thought of seven too, before reading the article or the comments.
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by user17843 7y ago
Where is your evidence? Did you even read my comment? The typical pihole lists already include tracking domains. What you imply is that if I visit youtube.com with tracking disabled, they still create a profile of me. Then tell me, what uni
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by user17843 7y ago
You contradict yourself. Google Purchase history requires a google account, they can't connect it to you if you are not logged in. The reason google pushes the log-in in their browser is exactly because they want to be able to tie this
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by user17843 7y ago
This is overkill. A way simpler solution is to simply not have a registered account with those companies. That's where the problems start, when they tie certain browsing and telemetry data to your true identity. For everything else a g
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by user17843 7y ago
I'm so shocked about this, my Iphone almost slipped out of my hands while I googled the Microsoft ebook store, but then I asked Alexa and she said everything will be ok. My Tesla is now driving me to an analogue bookshop to show my ful
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by user17843 7y ago
That has long been resolved, and you probably know that. Your own link contains evidence that it has been resolved, so this is kind of absurd.
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by user17843 7y ago
I think it would be more constructive it Firefox would include a better visualization of the extend of web tracking. Mozilla had already tried something like this with an extension, it's called "Firefox Lightbeam". With the n

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