Web pages are not allowed to list your extensions. They can indirectly surmise you have certain extensions based on how your requests differ from expectations. For example, if they have advertisements, but your browser never actually makes any requests to load the images, CSS, JS or HTML for the advertisements, they can deduce you have an ad-blocker. That’s a datapoint they now have to ID you: “has an ad-blocker”

Now let’s say they have an ad they know AdBlockPlus allows, but uBlock Origin doesn’t. They see your browser doesn’t load that ad. Another datapoint: “Not using AdBlockPlus”.

Based on what requests go back and forth between your browser and their servers, they map out a unique fingerprint.

Now you visit another site, and lo and behold, all the same quirks are found. Tada, they now say “hm, probably the same browser,” and start personalizing content. Site use an ad network, so it’s the common denominator, not the sites you visit. The ad networks do the between-sites tracking.

also, VPN does diddly squat when you login to some service like google, facebook, xitter, amazon, outlook, reddit, etc. You logged in as you. They don’t give a shit you’re logging in from another IP. And if the sites are working with the same ad network, if you’ve ever logged in from your real IP even once, they they just add another datapoint about you: “Sometimes uses a VPN” and that gets tucked away in your permanent record.

nothing you do online is private. I’m not saying “give up” but it’s pretty bleak and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon.

i fucking love that this exact problem was solved until Reddit unsolved it by charging exorbitant API fees and effectively killed 3rd party apps and forced everyone onto their shitty app.

e n s h i t t i f i c a t i o n

Probably why Macron is in power and not Le Pen and the fascists.

ftfy

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That’s not the way they would track you. If you use the same email address for both accounts, a data broker on the back end will be able to connect them because you used the same email address. It’s not about the IP address. It’s about your identity. And if you’re like oh well I’ll just make a new email for each site, Gmail requires that you use a phone number to sign up. Most email providers do. So then they would just connect you by your phone number because you needed to use those on both email addresses. Privacy is nonexistent on the web. Mind you this happens because LinkedIn shares your data with “third-party partners and service providers”. There’s nothing that you can do to stop this.

And god fucking forbid that common sense be in the language. Who the fuck needs a language with common sense, amirite?

Newspeak double plus good.

wet quesedilla

Oh look, a Culture ship Mind.

“There was no crime in the Culture, not really. Not because people were punished—there were no punishments, as such—but because nobody wanted to commit crimes. Or if they did, there were outlets, safe simulations that hurt no one.”

– Surface Detail, Chapter 7, Iain M. Banks

only in theory. in reality, only one person would ever buy it then re-release the source code for free-as-in-beer. unless you’re talking about something other than GPL2/3.

Not if it was created with empathy for sentience. Then it would aid and assist implementation of renewable energy, fusion, battery storage, reduce carbon emissions, make humans and AGI a multi-planet species, and basically all the stuff the elongated muskrat said he wanted to do before he went full Joiler Veppers

nah, it’s dns.

So are Christians, they believed that God in the form of Jesus came down and revealed the New Testament to the 12 Disciples and wrote it in the Bible.

Those of the Jewish faith are still waiting for the savior to show up because they don’t believe Jesus was the one.

to be fair that was in the prequels, which sucked ass

thunderous applause

That was the day for peaceful resistance.

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

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