Harley Turan
Any app that can access your photo library can, with enough effort, determine your address, where you shop, where your friends live, where you go…
Contents tagged “privacy”
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Cookie Status team
Cookie Status :: Current Status Of Browser Tracking Prevention
The cookiestatus.com website is a knowledge sharing resource for the various tracking protection mechanisms implemented by the major browsers and…
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Chrome extension to play sounds on network requests depending on content type and domain. Higher pitch for bigger files. Reminds me a lot of Tracker…
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A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time…
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The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)
while a Twitter user technically “publishes” a message for all world to see as they like or retweet a tweet, the consequence that simply pushing a…
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The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
This is a complicated problem. I want to see what people are writing in public about my posts. I also want to direct people to the conversations which…
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So to get Email Protection from @DuckDuckGo, I have to download an app from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store.
Makes perfectly sense, they couldn't have done it with a Web site… 🤷♂️
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Laura Kalbag
This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You
The web, and Big Tech at large, is tracking our every move, habit, and facial expression. As designers and developers who are also users, we both…
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Jessica Davies
After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe — and kept growing ad revenue
Great demonstration that GDPR is not a threat for publishers who favor quality: The desirability of a brand may be stronger than the targeting capabilities.…
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deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days effectively blocks any future decentralised apps using the browser (client side)…
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Katharine Schwab
Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
Because reCaptcha v3 is likely to be on every page of a website, if you’re signed into your Google account there’s a chance Google is getting data…
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Yoav Weiss
Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
User-Agent sniffing, used for example to (try to) perform dynamic serving instead of true responsive web design, has always been a really bad practice,…
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Trackers on Your Domain, Revenue Risk
In this article, Boris shows how new practices around third party trackers hidden as first party assets, to "escape" GDPR and trackers blockers, can…
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Farhad Manjoo
I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.
For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers…
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Jack Schofield
Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?
Here's a good overview of mobile (smart)phones alternative to Google and Apple ones (or lack thereof), if you want to make sure you're not spied on.…
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Opquast
The Web Quality Checklist is intended for all professionals who create websites. It is designed in a collaborative way by a community of Web professionals,…
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Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
The mobile location industry began as a way to customize apps and target ads for nearby businesses, but it has morphed into a data collection and…
Robert Gerlach
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