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Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge => Topic started by: gadget42 on October 15, 2022, 02:11:19 AM

Title: browser fingerprinting
Post by: gadget42 on October 15, 2022, 02:11:19 AM

browser fingerprinting

did a forum search for "browser fingerprinting" which had only one 10yr-old result:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11315.0.html

so here we go...down another rabbithole...

hat-tip Don Marti:
https://blog.zgp.org/individual-privacy/

tip-of-the-iceberg:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2020/09/22/i-scanned-the-websites-i-visit-with-blacklight-and-its-horrifying-now-what
https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage

also see this previous forum thread on using hosts blocklists:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25288.0.html
(for those short on time)
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
https://filterlists.com/
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/28/shut-yer-pi-hole/#largest-boycott-in-world-history

keyword(s):
cory doctorow
brave
chrome
dillo
duckduckgo
edge
elinks
firefox
links
lynx
midori
opera
safari
vivaldi

footnote:
purposely did NOT use the a-word, g-word, or m-word...

Title: Re: browser fingerprinting
Post by: gadget42 on October 15, 2022, 02:45:45 AM

bummer, too late to modify the original post...sigh...
https://blog.torproject.org/powered-by-privacy/

Title: Re: browser fingerprinting
Post by: gadget42 on October 16, 2022, 05:36:00 AM

more kicking the weeds at Don Marti's...

from the bonus section below this recent commentary:
https://blog.zgp.org/topics-api-notes/

we find more commentary on tracking, this time via emails:
https://www.vox.com/recode/23332959/email-tracking-privacy

sharing is caring

Title: Re: browser fingerprinting
Post by: gadget42 on October 16, 2022, 06:12:41 AM

more re: emails
https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/10/16/0249235/microsoft-office-365-vulnerability-could-allow-sidestepping-of-email-encryption