• Aeri@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    WebRTC handed us your public IP directly: 0.0.0.0.

    Well that doesn’t seem right I really wish I could just tell my computer to stop handing over all this information for no fucking reason

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    There’s one thing this site gets wrong. And it’s central for their mission to correct that. Because I guess everyone else does get that wrong, too. Very likely including those guys who do the profiling (although their wage probably depends on not realizing that mistake):

    You do not need cookie banners to ask for consent to set a cookie. You are required to ask for consent to process people’s information, to profile them, stalk them, fingerprint them. Cookies are one of the ways to do that. But not the only way.

    This site - as basically every other site using ad providers - did all of this without asking for consent, but was required to ask. At least for visitors from the EU (like me). It didn’t matter that they didn’t use any cookies for it. They need to ask and they need to respect a rejection. It’s also not ok to do it and just say that everyone else does so, too.

    That’s the message that should come across. Not “hey look what we can do without cookies”. It’s “hey, cookies are a scapegoat. We don’t need them. We’d have to ask for consent but since everyone is so preoccupied with cookies, we just didn’t. Like all this ad tech companies spying on you didn’t ask, too. They should be held accountable.”

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Nice machine, by the way. a Linux box (of course it is).

    Well now either that’s passive-aggressive or aggressive-passive.

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        Yeah, it’s about as effective as ending every comment with “I do not consent to my comments being used to train AI data sets”

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          Funnily enough, there was a user on Lemmy who literally did that. Every post contained a signature like that. Haven’t seen that line in a while though. I guess they just gave up or stopped posting on Lemmy.

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    4 days ago

    5 seconds on the site and I closed it. The text writing on screen effect is beyond annoying

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      3 days ago

      Seriously. Just print it all at once. I’ve seen all this before anyway. It’s just presented differently.

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    Why don’t we have a plugin that randomizes all of the fingerprinting data? Anything you type gets copy/pasted into the site after you finish typing so you don’t leave typing info for the site to read etc. Or we could try to set all browsers to report the exact same information which ruins the premise of fingerprinting.

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      3 days ago

      after reloading the page in a private session, it said that it was my first time here again. I am a bit disappointed

      edit: it also said I read it all the way down again, despite the fact that I spammed enter to skip it

  • Lauchmelder@feddit.org
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    It detected a bunch of databases running on localhost. Which is weird because although all of the DBs it detected are present in my network, they’re not on localhost. How did it figure that out?