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Cat@ponder.cat to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy.

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Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy.

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Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
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Google is allowing advertisers to collect more personal information, which is harder for users to control.
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    ad blocking in of itself does not block finger printing.

    install noscrypt and block all that java script along with jshelter on privacy focused FF fork, please report back your experience to the class haha

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      https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/block-fingerprinting/

      https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections

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        https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising/

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          The point is that while there are definitely downsides, there are also fairly painless ways to use fingerprint blocking on reputable browsers, and that it doesn’t “break half the internet” it just might have a slight learning curve. Just because something isn’t just plug it in and forget doesn’t mean it doesn’t work or isn’t accessible.

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      It all works fine for me with ad/ tracking blockers, browser based blockers, noscript, ublock origin, etc, even geoip blocking for anything inbound

      I guess I use different sites…

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