You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection Apple on Tuesday updated its Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) system in its WebKit browser engine because it could be tracked. While ITP has been somewhat effective, making Safari users more opaque and less valuable in the behavioral ad targeting ecosystem than cookie-laden Chrome users, it still has gaps. Recently, …
The simplest thing to do would be to pass a law banning all tracking. With rather severe penalties --- such as the directors of any attempt being mandatorily sent for 2 to 5 years to a Category A High Security [ Exceptional Risk ] prison.
We cannot stop the Americans tracking and spying on us, as they do their own subject people, nor the Russians, nor the Chinese, they will have to dree their own weird. We can at least stop our own scum.
Advertisers and spymasters do not own us.
Sorry, I think the advertisers and spooks have pretty much everything sorted
on the subject of Stasi - part of the virtuous data-sharing between agencies and advertising . which happens everywhere, is getting an extremely rare oral hearing in Karlsruhe.
Should the BND be allowed to spy on the telephone calls of foreign nationals in third countries and analyse their internet data ... will now be debated before the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe....
The anticipated landmark ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court will be the first on the BND’s surveillance activities in over 20 years. .... in the light of the massive increase in surveillance possibilities resulting from digitization. ....
seems journalists, politicians, citizens are not that much protected by the constitution - but everywhere else on the planet is in a worse situation. From what I've seen.
"Recently, Google security researchers found a way to use ITP for the very thing it was created to stop and passed their findings on to Apple, to the potential detriment of their future ad revenue."
Bloody hell - I wouldn't want to be that researcher. Congratulations on your discovery, now clear your desk. You're fired.
The below link is a nice summary to harden the Firefox browser. Also grab a search engine from Mycroft as Mozilla passes your browser info every time you use search.
Harden Firefox:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/09/firefox-hardening-guide/
search engines:
https://mycroftproject.com/dlstats.html
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