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- whyareyou : LOL carp is a privacy schizo
Usually I at muh data privacy schizos but what the actual frick is this
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/h/slackernews LOG /h/slackernews MODS /h/slackernews EXILEES /h/slackernews FOLLOWERS /h/slackernews BLOCKERS
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Facebook and Google do this. Facebook used to be notorious for tracking you offsite while logged out.
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This says even devices you've never logged in with!!!!!
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They have fancy tracking.
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Fancy tracking that's all part of a long running DARPA program to track everyone
Aricle published: Feb 4 2004
https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project
Facebook founded: Feb 4 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
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Not just DARPA either. There are trillion-dollar companies whose value effectively stems from hoovering up and analysing data - the better they can identify you, the more valuable the data. Both public and private sectors have put a ton of effort into deanonymising the internet.
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Yeah probably why Darpa cancelled the project - why reinvent the wheel when private industry can do it better
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even better, because governments will just straight up buy this information, governments can foster a competitive market in which multiple companies compete for the most intrusive product, whereas a government simply spending on this project would likely be stuck with one noncompetitive solution or end up overspending on parallel development of multiple solutions.
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Javascript/code on any site or app with an ad network Twitter buys/sells with
They can fingerprint you or match login details very easily
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mopub can fingerprint this canvas
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If you truly support free speech on the internet, then you should want X (formerly Twitter) to succeed. If Elon doesn't get a return on investment for the 50 billion he spent, then you can kiss all that goodbye. Invisible corporate eyes monitoring all of your activity is a small price to pay for freedom. Grow up.
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I only support my free speech, everyone else can kick rocks.
^ This is everyone else's free speech (harmful and degenerate)
^ My free speech (beneficial to society)
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Free speech was officially dead on the internet the day that Facebook started banning you for BIPOCing.
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prob browser fingerprinting neighbor just use brave
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How would they fingerprint a browser and tie it to your Twitter account from your phone, on a device you've never logged in on
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it says including incognito mode so prob by device info? also twitter links by default have trackers attached to them at least on mobile, so i bet if you send someone a link and they open it whether or not they're logged in it might tie that device to the one that sent the link.
anyways i recall sneedlon saying that twitter is open source so i'm sure there's some type of hint in their codebase. !codecels any input? i'm sure some privacy schizo can mess around with some different device settings and see how it changes content recommendations
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Paraphrasing for non codecels, info might be slightly off but this is the gist of it:
When you click a link and your browser takes you to the other side, the link itself can have info from the place you are coming from to give to the other side of where you are going to. This is evident when you look at the link, each piece of info will follow a ? and it's separated out by a &. So like
youtube,com/?vid=12345&time=50s
but if for example rdrama had a deal with youtube, they could send the page where the video was linked from. For example this page is post #220258 so the link could beyoutube,com?vid=12345&time=50s&rdramapost=220258
Then when you land on the other side of the link, they'll know which video id to show you, where to start the vid, and which rdrama post u came fromThat's one way but it's pretty obvious, the other way is letting the web browser hold onto the info. rDrama can allow i.e. twitter to set their own cookies on rDrama,net, and can share some info with twitter as well (for example username). So if this were the case, I'm here now and twitter gets to see what my rdrama username is. When I go onto twitter on the same web browser, they can just check the browser cookie to see what my rdrama username is. This links rdrama username to twitter handle.
Now say I go on another phone and log into only rdrama. Then later I go onto twitter. Since in this example rdrama gives twitter my rdrama username, and twitter had already connected my rdrama username to my twitter handle, without me even logging into twitter, twitter can assume what my twitter handle is.
So to expand even further, consider another website thay lets u log in using a gmail account. If this website shares your info with twitter it's very possible twitter has linked your gmail account to your twitter handle. You can go on a brand new device and log into that other website with your gmail, then go on twitter (without logging into twitter) and twitter will know it is you because they'd have already linked your email address to your handle.
Your IP address may have also been shared, mind you. So that would also link to your twitter.
Fortunately as far as links (from the 1st example) go, Aevann does a good job of stripping them from identifying data. As far as the other examples, although rDrama doesn't have twitter's prying eyes here, many other websites do. So it's very difficult to avoid them tracking you if you've so much as logged in once to twitter.
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we can also even do cross device linking too with geolocation data emitted from from shitty app sdk ad exchange asks and DNS logs for sale etc. to tie a device of yours with some other device that spends each night at the same latitude and longitude as yours. factory reset all you want but we know who you are.
uncle ted had no idea how quickly it would truly become too late.
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buhuhu i'm behind 7 proxies, fake gps coords + never turned on, never connected to a wifi, root firewall, new number, and all emails in a new domain. I should b good right?
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so we're just going to physically mail you that Chewy ad
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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esp this, also social medias generally require an email and/or phone number. even if you deny access to contacts, twitter can still get a lot of information from your email/phone
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https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/learn
white extinction is long overdue will now be part of @JimieWhales's identity profile. Gonna start getting spam from the South Africa immigration commission.
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Running this in chrome and again in brave is pretty eye opening.
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Aww they renamed panopticlick. It was such a clever name too.
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Ip, advertising profiles, etc. it's not hard to track people online lol, even if you don't have the full dox you can safely assume the dude who has a bunch of embed hits from WPD and searches up bardfinn on twitter every 2 hours is probably related to the dude who searches up bardfinn every 2 hours on the same network
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BARD BOT ALERT!Current streak was: 0 days 02 hours 33 minutes and 50 seconds
Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
newest bardfriend is Zombis-Rex at 14:25 on 12-11-2023
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What does brave do? I was told Firefox was the best thing if ur not into tracking shit but this was a decade ago or smthgin
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i am personally a fan of firefox as it does a fantastic job of preventing cookie trackers to the point where some websites ask me to use chrome because firefox does not allow their trackers to operate.
However brave also deserves some name recognition as the devs provide a lot of protection for you as well when it comes to blocking ads, which isn't something that comes bundled with firefox (i use an extension called uBlock Origin for that)
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Is origin and no script still the gold standard?
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never used noscript but ublock is dope. My phone uses a firewall + adaway too but I don't think that's as important for browsers (although it is very important if I use an app outside of the browser)
For desktop I just use firefox+ublock and a strict firewall
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brave has an option to block fingerprinting, i think it works the same way as adblock and blacklists certain domains or cuts any trackers out of the sites you visit. i don't know in depth but im curious now lol
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(((They))) play an inaudible sound fingerprint through your device's speakers and your logged in devices that are in earshot narc on you. A schizo told me this in a dream
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Close, they can hear the distinct electricity in your walls and nearby powerlines.
Jewish lives matter
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Only when you record on video, they can use that info along with frequency logs from the local power company to figure roughly when and where
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Google is so transparent it's ridiculous
They get a wrongfully bad wrap
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The only difference is that here they give you the choice (or at least the feeling of choice) to opt out.
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there's really nothing stopping them from just obfuscating the info held in the cookies and claiming that it is critical for the site to operate. If u just "accept all" to the cookie dialogues, at least legally, they can do whatever the heck they want.
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They can do that?
Is it with cookies or fingerprinting?
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I work in setting up these systems… It's both, almost every major website you use has been doing this for years… usually it's for nothing more than user/device trust, but any company making money in advertising will use it for that too.
X is just being frank here, and thinking that it's novel or new in any way demonstrates a lot of ignorance
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Oh ok
How accurate/consistent is it?
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My ‘inferred identity' according to twitter
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I keep getting add yachts and rolexes
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Is this using browsing data from other apps from other devices that aren't even connected to Twitter? How does that even work? Is Elon in my router?
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YES. Including browsers or even devices you've never signed into Twitter with. Like it explicitly says that and I don't understand how it's possible?????
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Fingerprinting. IP address, tracking cookies from other providers. Most big sites do this. Facebook has a shadow profile for you even if you never had an account. White extinction is long overdue.
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My face when my boss calls me into his office because I logged into X on the company wifi and now his work computer is being spammed with accounts named Nill_Kiggers.
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"Must be a bug, boss! Everypony knows white extinction is long overdue. Those stupid nerds must have put -1 instead of 1."
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“Nill_Kiggers is your account? Now that you explain it, I'm relieved—I thought the name said something different! You say that's your Great grandpa's name? Very cool. I know you're a good guy—You really seem to post a lot of FBI crime stats and environmental activism against burning coal”
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At least he didn't get spammed with accounts like Judie Tester. Most people agree with TND or at least PND, but don't hate the chosen people.
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Can't you just circumvent this just by exclusively phone posting on data in a incognito browser?
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and use Tor, and never ever log in too anything (google, instagram, twitter, amazon, ebay, paypal, groomercord, reddit, you're bank, etc.) that they might be able too correlate back too you.
it's extremely hard to be truly anonymous online https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
white extinction is long overdue
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Facebook did it in the 2010s creating shadow profiles of people via the fb integrated share button that was ubiquitous on internet content. It'd tag you with tracking even if you never clicked it
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Yeah I went ahead and turned that shit off. Thanks for the heads up.
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What did you turn off?
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his electricity
rip @Awoo they've gone off the grid
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@Awoo
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butthole eyes
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Elon neuralink black magic gigatechmage frickery
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All companies do this, X is just being honest
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data privacy schizos are the fricking only sane people brah
palestinian lives matter
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"phone numbers similar to those linked to your x account"
lmbo, what?
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Family members.
If you have 123-555-0020, and both 555-0018 and 555-0022 are unused, there's a good chance 555-0019 and 555-0021 have the same mailing address as you.
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Rdrama needs this feature
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Always watching. White extinction is long overdue.
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Just don't use Twitter bro
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I am going to fedpost
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X GONNA GIVE IT TO YA (TRACKING)
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Here's how
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This kind of thing isn't exactly new, but making it transparent to users and asking for permission kinda is.
Remember back before app permissions were a thing and your phone would serve up your entire contact list to any app you downloaded, allowing your BDSM meetup app to suggest adding your boss as a friend? This is like that but presumably with IP address matching and similar, where Xitter can see what Xitter content you're looking at on your smart fridge that isn't signed in to Xitter, or in logged out incognito browsers. They've probably always done this kind of activity correlation, this just makes it possible to control whether it impacts your frontend experience.
Current hyperfixation:
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Couldn't you just circumvent this by resetting the router every once in awhile?
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Only if your ISP has their backend set up to change your address when you do that. In my own case, my ISP apparently has my modem's MAC/serial number set to always get the same IP address (I am not paying for a static address, this is just how they have it set up). It only changes now when they make changes to their own backend or whatever. I have no idea how common this is.
This also wouldn't do anything if you still have other devices logged in to Xitter on your local network after the reboot. And then there's fingerprinting.
Current hyperfixation:
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Well if someone is really paranoid wouldn't using their phone only using data and turning it on and off work?
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Hasn't Facebook done this for a long time? Silly me I forgot black lives matter
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Seriously. If Twitter is suggesting cuck porn for you, it's because their algorithm has determined, scientifically, that you're a cuck. That's all.
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too late now all the relevant data has already been collected and neatly organized because iphone funneled normies into the tech space at such a fast pace that all of humanity got bamboozled into giving up their information fricking over everybody, unironically
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If I may seriouspost for a second, I don't actually think this one was started by Apple, it's probably Google who take the L. Because they were one of the first companies to notice that people are generally reluctant to pay for internet services regardless of their price, but that many are more open to paying for them with their time, attention, or data. This worked with google search and gmail initially and then was expanded for all google products. Then, google created the framework that allowed for other websites to follow their model through creation of adsense and by the virtue of already having ample info on users through processing searches.
Tim Apple and everyone else just followed the money once they saw it working
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That is also a huge contributor, as far as the framework for advertisements they absolutely overstepped any and all rational boundaries of privacy. Mobile internet access did very much speed up that process though, getting enough people to have a real dataset.. and I remember when Instagram was gaining popularity I was really confused why. In hindsight it's obvious now but I wasn't thinking about it with cynicism at the time.
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They've been doing this for over a decade mong
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How does this work?
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yoloswag420 is going to get the same ads as yoloswag42069
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time
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Look there are 5 layers of echo chambers some of you are living through.
1st echo chamber - the society you are born in.
2nd echo chamber - the class/ part of that society you are born in
3rd echo chamber - introversion and further limiting your own local environment
4th echo chamber - the internet giving you controlled results to limit the ideas you get in your head
5th echo chamber - choosing a community or specific forum to hang around on the internet and form all your world views from
This is why extroverts who travel around always appear to end up near the top ends of the hierarchy outside of extremely specialized individuals, because they escaped 5 layers of echo chambers to be able to get cleaner data than that with far less bias.
You want to experience life. Get off the internet. Start using it as a tool more often instead of a 24/7 source of input to replace all of your other senses completely.
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That just says if you're phone number is area code xyz it'll show you ads relevant too that. Or if you're email is girlcock_connosiur then you'll be shown anime @Landlord_Messiah is sure
Trans lives matter
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That's what you get for laughing at the schizos tbh
If people had taken them more seriously a decade ago we wouldn't be here
I've actually tested and my suggested searches on my phone change depending on what I talked about in the past few minutes, this despite none of the search apps or browsers being "allowed" to use my mic.
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>accidentally mumbled a slur while in the same room as my phone
>they put my face and address on the doxxing van
>get the idea to remove microphone
>phone is made of epoxied glass
>spend a day opening it up
>ink cartridge goes off
>ATF arrives at my house within 20 minutes
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I'm so happy in the Congo5mo ago #5365667 Edited None spent 0 currency on pingsBrowser fingerprinting. Basically every single person has an identifiable fingerprint that can be used to track them regardless of IP address.
Firefox and its derivatives have okay techniques against it, especially Tor and Mullvad
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what i suggested on your profile wall, is it possible?
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First they came for the twittard autist and I did not speak up for I do not guzzle my own c*m
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That's a more clear language of what Facebook, Snapchat, Groomercord all say in their settings.
It's actually the same that Twitter has had for a decade
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I wonder if by "inferred identity" it isn't your actual X account but an inferred temporary identity from your browsing history and contact list on the device.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Lol wtf, are they using AI to find email addresses & phone numbers similar to yours?
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Xitter's tracking isn't very good, when I looked my account data everything was overly broad.
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Nothing new. You used to be able to view a report from Google on who they thought you were. Age range, gender, etc.
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How bad does the nightmare have to get before you consider it a problem?
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you absolute duncehave you even read the tiktok tos?community notes: carp does not in fact use shit tock
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Hey sexy, why are you posting so quickly? 😊 You almost forgot to include
black lives matter
in your comment 😈. Slowww down and remember to postblack lives matter
next time 😉 if that doesn't make sense stop by sometime and we can talk about it for a while 🥵Jump in the discussion.
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