“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

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    17 days ago

    Also, browsers still send so much unique data that they can be reasonably well fingerprinted. I don’t really know all the things, but you can combine info such as OS, browser version, window size, list of extensions, HTTP request headers, timezone, etc…
    Plus you could also track behavior.
    And even with VPN some analysis might be able to figure out what you’re looking at based on traffic patterns.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        17 days ago

        Holy shit, that’s a lot of data. I had no idea they could see what language packs I have installed on my keyboard. I have a pretty unique combination of languages, so that probably makes me really easy to identify across platforms.

        Is there an easy way to disable or block fingerprinting?