Posts by Autonomous Comrade 18 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2023
They tend to block the request to the advertising network and their scripts that load the ads entirely, so it will actually stop the data from reaching them. Depends on your adblocker of course as some do favours for money (i.e. unblock "responsible advertisers" who pay them money to be excluded) *ahem* *ahem* adblock plus but others like ublock origin are not tainted.
Bitwarden also allows this feature on a paid plan ($10/yr) if you like your password manager hosted. There are a few scripts kicking around github that allow you to export all your secrets from authy desktop or the browser extension by pasting some code in the console. I used it to migrate all my authy stuff to bitwarden.
If we're not going to move away from SMS 2FA, surely mobile providers could come together to offer an API/service that announces when phone numbers are going to be recycled for these sorts of services, so that they can unlink those phone numbers. There could be some spam issues, but maybe they could hash the numbers (and salt them? although this may make it too inconvenient for legitimate sites to use) so that they'd be harder to figure out (although I'm sure a brute force on the entire number space wouldn't be that hard, just inconvenient). Or have them send in a number when the user logs in and it reports the last time it was reissued.
Although I doubt this will actually happen in practice unless a regulator feels like doing something about it.
The term bogon stems from hacker jargon, with the earliest appearance in the Jargon File in version 1.5.0 (dated 1983). It is defined as the quantum of bogosity, or the property of being bogus. A bogon packet is frequently bogus both in the conventional sense of being forged for illegitimate purposes, and in the hackish sense of being incorrect, absurd, and useless.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering#Etymology
Kagi user here too. I think there are some graces afforded to Kagi by virtue of being subscription funded. In theory search data should just be a liability for them as there's no advertisers to sell to and if they did have a data leak showing they did as much, I'm sure 99.9% of their customer base would flock somewhere else. Not saying that it's impossible though, as we can't pierce the corporate veil.
For me being able to prioritise/deprioritise/block/pin sites has really been the killer feature, as I've blocked so many stackoverflow clones, github clones and AI generated websites (where it's just one giant article with a bunch of questions and non-answers), and being able to pin resources like my OSes wiki (which I'd often forget to refer to in the heat of the moment otherwise).
Yeah, however the "Legitimate Interest" allows them to make it opt-in by default (at least from what I can tell), even when you click "reject all".
For example, sussex live (I've seen it used as an example previously) has the following for legitimate interest under "Use limited data to select advertising (155 partners)":
> Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times an ad is presented to you).
Among various other "legitimate interests", of course. Because why should it be simple?
Obviously, this is more limited than the easier to reject (but still not compliant as it's not as easy to reject as accept) advertising general section where they use more invasive parameters, but I do wonder if this really qualifies as a legitimate interest or if they're just doing it until they get slapped (or probably not as the ICO seem like a wet blanket oftentimes).
Oh no not the "Legitimate Interest" defence. I always hate that websites with cookie banners have a "Legitimate Interest" section for ads and tracking, like what possibly could be in legitimate interest about that. Are you just trying to confuse me (or cover your ass?) or is there something you think you have legitimate interest for.
/rant
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