Contents tagged “privacy”
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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 contribute to the surveillance system and are exploited by it. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
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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:
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Aral Balkan
deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days effectively blocks any future decentralised apps using the browser (client side) as a trusted replication node in a peer-to-peer network. And that’s a huge blow to the future of privacy.
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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 about every single webpage you go to that is embedded with reCaptcha v3—and there many be no visual indication on the site that it’s happening, beyond a small reCaptcha logo hidden in the corner.
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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, for different reasons:
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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 lead to security and performance issues, leading to potential business loss.
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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 that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained. Then I uploaded the data to my colleagues at The Times, who reconstructed my web sessions into the gloriously invasive picture of my digital life you see here.
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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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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, led by the French company Opquast (Open Quality Standards).
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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 analysis machine.
Laura Kalbag
Jessica Davies
Katharine Schwab
Yoav Weiss
Boris Schapira
Farhad Manjoo
Jack Schofield
Opquast
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