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Anticorp, in Google trashes its "DRM for the Web" API - gHacks Tech News

Google temporarily delays rollout of their DRM for Web until public attention shifts to something worse they propose that was always a smokescreen.

shortwavesurfer, in How are personal websites actually helpful for private expression?

If you want to be sure, what I would do is host it on my local machine and not use a typical domain, but set up and run it as an onion over tor.

KarnaSubarna, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:
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I personally consider this[1] to be the ultimate test of Browser fingerprint protection coverage. Let me know if you manage to find a way to defeat this test.

[1] abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

ultratiem, in Google trashes its "DRM for the Web" API - gHacks Tech News
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The company [Google] claimed that this new API would help combat online fraud and abuse, and that it would do so in a privacy-friendly manner.”

Lied. The word is lied.

netchami, in UK Government Drawing Up Proposals To Criminalise Dissent

Why is the UK turning into a fucking dictatorship

swayevenly, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:

Anyone know how I can get improved fingerprinting results on Firefox Android? Currently its at 16.56 bits and it says I have strong protection against web tracking. NoCanvas isn’t availble on Android devices.

KarnaSubarna, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:
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This is another good website for Browser leak/privacy settings test.

browserleaks.com

dan1101, in Best android browser?

Firefox Nightly

KarnaSubarna, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:
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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/640952c3-1ec1-45f9-9d05-2c43e4253be9.png

OS: Ubuntu 23.10 | Browser: Firefox 119 | Add-on: No-Script | Misc: AdGuardHome on Raspberry Pi 4B

Edit: Uploaded Full image for Comparison with Mullvad Browser.

CJOtheReal, in Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.

Ok but who the fuck uses Facebook?

CheshireSnake, in Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
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Your ad blocker is blocking posts from friends

Thank fucking god

Ronnie,

My Facebook is hardly even friends these days. It’s basically ads, suggested posts, and posts in groups. Maybe because none of my friends really post anymore, I dunno.

downpunxx, in Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
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Ad Blocking is Cyber Security, never ever let anyone convince you differently

Uranium3006,
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if ads were just static PNGs with a link you went to if you clicked I wouldn't have ever bothered. but ads became a major malware and tracking risk so plugging that security hole became mandatory.

reflex_aliens, in Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.

Seems like a feature to me.

downpunxx, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:
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My impression is the thing with modern day ad tracking, selling information to spammers, and hackers is, even if you secure your browser tighter than a drum, any one of your browser extensions, which we've given permission to read all site data on every site you visit and interact with, could be keeping extensive logs on your activity and selling that away to the highest bidder. Am I understanding that right?

nottheengineer,

Yes and that’s why you stick to popular FOSS stuff.

Melody, in Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking:

I’ve got really good scores. I’m grading a bit on a curve due to mitigations/spoofs already in place for both browsers that fool the scripts effectively.

4.45 bits from Firefox. [“System Fonts” is the worst score]

4.47 bits from LibreWolf. [“AudioContext Fingerprint” is the worst score

Some Measurements are Ignored; reasons within.User Agent - Flawed. This contains no personally identifiable information and spoofing this often causes compatibility and functionality issues. It is OK to spoof for -MORE- functionality if needed. WebGL Vendor & Renderer - Spoofed/Blocked Firefox spoofs this via CanvasBlocker and LibreWolf blocks this from being accessed at all. Spoofing allows some websites to feel “satisfied” they have some fingerprint that is otherwise patent nonsense and CanvasBlocker will present the same value to the website/script later if it’s loaded in the same Container/Context. Screen Size and Color Depth - Spoofed/Blocked Both Firefox and LibreWolf will spoof/randomize/standardize these viewport values back to scripts to preserve privacy. For functionality reasons my LibreWolf installation is my minimal plugin environment. This allows me to quickly and temporarily load a website I might NEED to use without compromising on Privacy while not being forced to troubleshoot which plugins might be preventing the site from loading in Firefox. System Fonts - LibreWolf Only Spoofed/Blocked Value is Randomized

spacedance,

What settings/addons do you recommend?

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