This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Just in time for their prophet, Curtis Yarvin, to be pushing a full-scale surveillance state!
Googlers aren't on our side. They want to rule. They think being a fucking admin on a server makes them cut out to run society.
They want to tear down democracy and basically replace it with administrator rules and access control lists.
Googlers aren’t on our side
They never were, out interests just aligned while they were growing market share. They have that now, so there's no more reason to stay aligned.
Corporations aren't your friend, but they can be momentary allies. People should've bailed once IE was dethroned, but here we are...
Further evidence that a Republican government in the USA results in private organisations pushing the bar as far as they can.
In Reagan's time it was Wall Street. Now it's Silicon Valley.
You want private organisations working for your benefit and not that of their shareholders? You need a government that actually has the gumption to challenge them. The current US government is 4 years of a surrender flag flying on the white house.
Or we could bin off this fucking failed neoliberal experiment, but that's apparently a bit controversial for far too many people
I go to pornhub every morning to check out the articles. Lately I've noticed that they have exactly the kind of articles I'm interested in always at the top two rows and then a bunch of stuff I'm not really into elsewhere. They are definitely testing stuff.
I too go to pornhub for the articles.
Good thing I erased Google out of my life a decade ago meaning I can much easier block even more of their everywhere present garbage and not have issues.
But why would any browser accept access to those metadata so freely? I get that programming languages can find out about the environment they are operating in, but why would a browser agree to something like reading installed fonts or extensions without asking the user first? I understand why Chrome does this, but all of the mayor ones and even Firefox?
Firefox has built-in tracking protection.
I know that it has that in theory, but my Firefox just reached a lower score on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ (which was posted in this threat, thanks!) than a Safari. Firefox has good tracking protection but has an absolute unique fingerprint, was 100% identifiable as the first on the site, as to Safari, which scored a bit less in tracking but had a not unique fingerprint.
new? isn't this at least like a decade old method of tracking?
Using Mullvad Browser + Mullvad VPN could mitigate this a little bit. Because if you use it as intended (don’t modify Mullvad browser after installation) , all Mullvad users would have the same browser fingerprint and IPs from the same pool.
Digital fingerprinting is a method of data collection – one that in the past has been refused by Google itself because it “subverts user choice and is wrong.” But, we all remember that Google removed “Don’t be evil” from its Code of Conduct in 2018. Now, the Silicon Valley tech giant has taken the next step by introducing digital fingerprinting.
Oh, forgot to mention - we're evil now. Ha! Okay, into the chutes.
