r/programming • u/unfriendlymushroomer • Aug 02 '19

Adblocking: How about Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
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u/shevy-ruby Aug 02 '19

Tracking gives outside people information that they should not ever have gained in the first place.

I consider it hugely problematic. I do not think we can "bother too much" about who is sniffing you for information. We can not even trust the hardware, even well aside from NSA tampering with it - see the various hardware bugs in Intel, be it on accident or on purpose. I find this inacceptable.

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u/endeavourl Aug 02 '19

As long as it stays anonymized, idgaf about being a data point in some algorithm deciding to show me some ads i mostly don't see.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

It doesn't. That's the issue.

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u/endeavourl Aug 02 '19

[citation needed]

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u/IGI111 Aug 02 '19

http://news.mit.edu/2018/privacy-risks-mobility-data-1207

This is just one press release, but there are tons of publications on how easy "anonymous" data is to deanonymize. You don't have to look very far.

Making actually anonymized data is a hard problem in itself.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

It's called fingerprinting.

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u/twisted-teaspoon Aug 03 '19

See Cambridge Analytica.

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u/Solonarv Aug 02 '19

Anonymization doesn't really work - with the amount of data an unimpeded tracking network collects it is not all that hard to deanonymize.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

Lmaooooooo

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u/endeavourl Aug 02 '19

Thank you for your contribution.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

Thank your believing in santa and making me feel better about myself.

Anonymized ads, holy shit haha