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[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago

We once ran a trial at work for a lead generation software.

It could show who visited your website, what company they worked for, how to contact them, their socials and even a video of exactly where they pointed and clicked their mouse.

No sign up required, all by fingerprinting.

Shit was creepy as fuck, glad we don't use it anymore.

It also made me realize fingerprinting is almost impossible to avoid. There's so many little things gathered to identify you, it seems unavoidable to be traced.

[-] siravious@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Yep, and add the OS itself spying with an unremovable universal ID, by a company who proactively reports on you, and wtf moments really turn surreal.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

It upsets me that in working with webpages, I regularly look at “all” the network traffic going to a website - and clearly Microsoft’s GUID is hiding somewhere it won’t even show.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

It might be stored locally, then shared with a call home through telemetry after which Microsoft then sells it as "anonymized" data, which is then again recombined with other sets by the buyer to recreate your profile.

I read that they can combine 3 anonymized datasets to fairly accurately identify a person.

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[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago

Fuckit, lets all go install templeOS.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Tor Browser is the only real defense.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 days ago

Oh god. I had to save this image and now I will use the sticker version of it everywhere.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago

*Just following orders.*™

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

They didn't really develop it, it just kinda happened, because browsers send so much goddamn data to the servers

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago

Sorry but, that's BS. Coders developed it. I should be punching multiple coders but someone somewhere made this happen. They could have said no.

[-] filcuk@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago

No, this is BS and not how the real world works. If would be fine if you've left it as a meme. Developers (in corps) don't decide what they'll work on.

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago
[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago

Alas, but, tragedy of commons and game theory [(and FOMO)] have us racing to the bottom (~ along with a dozen other things impeding an effective collective bargaining, or any of the other things that would otherwise allow us to have nice things).

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately there are many developers that apply the Banality of Evil to their doings.

[-] iterable@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Get CanvasBlocker on Firefox

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 6 points 6 days ago

Is there a queue?

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It’s more likely that a scientist invented it than an average coder.

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

As a coder myself, I can say: we as a group need to learn to say no more often.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're fired. We'll just hire someone from India for $0.03 a week.

We can dream about getting billions of people to all agree to stop undercutting each other. It's a nice dream

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

We can dream about getting billions of people to all agree to stop undercutting each other. It’s a nice dream

The conditioning is working. Don't unionize.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

the problem is that even if you convince 5 million people to join your union and raise your wages, the other 295 million people in the country are then gonna take the opportunity to undercut you, which leads you to be fired as "too expensive" and other people to take your job.

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