Secrets in Your Data
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Find out who’s using your data and what you can do about it.

I was under the impression that Privacy Badger wasn’t considered useful any more . . . ? They should’ve just recommended using Firefox instead, yes?

EDIT: They spoke to, but IMHO, did not give enough time to, Cory Doctorow and Brewster Kahle. They mentioned Mastodon 👍, and described the Fediverse while not actually calling it that! A bit frustrating.

  • voxel
    13·
    2 months ago

    the only reason I’m still using Privacy Badger is the feature that hides embeeded iframe widgets until a “view” button is clicked (for example, embeeded tweets etc)

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
    13·
    2 months ago

    Maybe just bad research. I haven’t tried, but I’m sure if you search for “how to protect yourself online” some of the SEO manipulating websites show up in the first results.

    • hedge@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Well, they spoke with the EFF which made Privacy Badger, so maybe that’s why. They did the password thing with the dice, tho, which I guess is good.

      • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should’ve kept my mouth shut

  • seang96@spgrn.com
    12·
    2 months ago

    I saw a GitHub repo that explained add-ons that are “useless” and add more finger printing. The biggest reason of them being useless was generally the fact unlock origin already has the feature too.

    • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      This is factually wrong; as installed plugins aren’t accessible to just any webpage…and plugins actually exist that obscure this anyways.

      Not to mention there’s more hardened forks of modern browsers that don’t share plugin information anyways.

      • seang96@spgrn.com
        13·
        2 months ago

        That’s not just how fingerprinting works. Any setting on your browser that is not default and any addon makes your browser setup more unique. From my understanding they don’t need to access your plugin listing or request settings because they can also do it based off of how the browser behaves. If you disable JavaScript entirely I suppose you wouldn’t have this issue though.

      • Umbrias@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        Why would librewolf specifically advise that you minimize your extensions to decrease client uniqueness if it had no effect on client uniqueness? Someone’s misinformed, and I don’t think its librewolf.

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    11·
    2 months ago

    Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc

    Privacy Badger does more than dFPI. dFPI just isolate cookies. Privacy Badger blocks cookies. And completely block connection to some hosts that are dedicated to tracking, which prevent other forms of tracking that aren’t cookie-based.