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138 votes
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By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
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Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (company offering apps with ads and tracking)
53 votes -
How to move your Instagram feed to Pixelfed, the photo app that doesn't track your every move
41 votes -
In major privacy win, US Supreme Court rules police need warrant to track your cellphone
40 votes -
Google axes bad reviews of tracker exposing Uyghur forced labor
38 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
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Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking
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Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea
31 votes -
What are y'all's favorite (private?) trackers?
promise im probably not a fed
31 votes -
Panopticlick: How unique is your browser?
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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
24 votes -
I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress; here’s what happened
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Is it even worthwhile to turn off ad personalization or location tracking for services/apps?
So, I’m moving to a new phone and revisiting a lot of accounts, apps, and settings. When it comes to things like location history or ad personalization or whatever, is it even worthwhile to turn...
So, I’m moving to a new phone and revisiting a lot of accounts, apps, and settings.
When it comes to things like location history or ad personalization or whatever, is it even worthwhile to turn it off? Am I really supposed to believe that because I have some toggle off that Google suddenly doesn’t track where I drive on Maps? Like if they are going to be tracking me, which I assume they are, I might as well be able to see it to rather than have it exist in the aether somewhere where the info is attributed to me but not viewable in the UI.
Even with ads, I know shadow profiles are a thing, and that they definitely have data beyond what they show in the UI, so might as well opt in there too right? Plus, the non-targeted ads I get are basically porn-tier ads or stuff for gay men.
What should I do here? Move into the woods? Feels like I can’t win.
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Private Internet Access’ “no-logging” claims proven true again in court
22 votes -
DuckDuckGo now crawls the web regularly to create a free list of trackers to block
21 votes -
New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
21 votes -
App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online
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What are the arguments against letting user data be collected?
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the...
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the user clicked.
Nevertheless, such data collection, tracking and telemetry is considered quite bad among power users. I don't support those practices either. But I'm struggling to consolidate my arguments agaist data collection. The one I'm confident about is effects on performance and battery life on mobile devices, but why else it's bad I'm not sure.
What are your arguments? Why is it bad when a company X knows what anonymous user Y did and made money on that info? What's the good response to anyone who asks why I'm doing the "privacy things"?
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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Cover Your Tracks - A new EFF project designed to better uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons (successor to Panopticlick)
19 votes -
Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators"
18 votes -
Employee monitoring software surges as companies send staff home
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
18 votes -
A new tracking technique using CNAME aliases to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions is blockable using a Firefox DNS API, but not in Chrome
18 votes -
How Facebook tracks you on Android
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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
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How smart TVs in millions of US homes track more than what’s on tonight
17 votes -
Introducing State Partitioning / Total Cookie Protection, a new privacy feature in Firefox 86 that universally prevents cookie-based tracking
16 votes -
The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
15 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
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Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
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US FTC warns tax prep companies against invasive online tracking
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How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him
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Meta's social media platforms will be temporarily barred from behavioral advertising in Norway after a ruling from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority
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Tim Cook responds to Facebook on Twitter: "[..] Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, [..] we just require that they ask for your permission first."
@Tim Cook: We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I
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How tracking pixels work
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
13 votes -
iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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(Don't) return to sender: How to protect yourself from email tracking
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‘Supercookies’ have privacy experts sounding the alarm
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Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates
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Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
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How traceable are you? - Experiment results & analysis
11 votes