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  • I'm not sure why you're receiving down votes. It's simple as that.

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not
  • That makes sense. Now it seems like a dilemma though. I assume that authority looking over this aspect of privacy would monitor the cookie sites to ensure no data is being retained when a user selects no, but that still leaves an opening for hackers. Well, I guess empty cookies would only mention the device ID and website ID and date accessed, nothing more.

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not
  • Yeah what you've described using your pihole sounds like a dream set-up. I honestly think that is the most powerful shield any home can have against data-mining apps, operating systems (looking at you, windows), websites, and even some physical devices (internet of things).

    Cookie tracking is something that - now that I think about it - I'm not too familiar with in terms of the original intended site tracking it, but if it's external sites, then yeah just blocking said external site from ever being loaded or script therefrom run should be good enough.

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not
  • No, just for preventing (I guess you could call it sanitizing with the web as it is now) shady traffic that might happen in the background. It's unfortunate that phones don't have a higher control on authorisation for apps to selectively block user specified IP or web addresses.

    Heh, I guess adblocking IS sanitizing your internet access

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not
  • I use browser extensions that - from what I'm understanding - remove any external script references, or at least prevent the script from loading, but I'll admit, the pihole method is what I've been drooling over for a while now, but haven't arranged yet. Also, it's probably more trustable than a browser extension, ironically. 😅

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not
  • Naturally, I have both these "cookie" sites denied access.

    I also felt that I should mention that any external asset domains can also see this traffic, too, but those typically aren't used with tracking - or the opposite thereof - in mind.

  • [Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not

    Something I noticed on a few websites, including stackoverflow, is that they leave tracking settings up to a different website, which still lets that external party know what websites a user has been seeing, and this can be maliciously abused.

    I realize this might have been mentioned before, but I didn't see any similar posts in a quick search.

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    Google Fiber Introduces 5Gbps Bundle in Austin
  • My guess is they want AI dataflow capable internet on the user end.

  • Why all this unused space at the top?
  • Previously on Sync, that space was used for subreddit banners, but I'm not sure if many Lemmy communities use a banner.

  • [PSA] Sharing what I consider the best settings for Sync
  • Yeah, I really appreciate the fact that it's an action that can't be done accidentally in most cases.

  • No, I don't think I will
  • No one else here use script blocking? Great for selectively disabling external scripts, google analytics, and other trackers, for example.

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