Comment on Browser Fingerprints Lead to Price Discrimination
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I’m sure a lot of this is going on … but this article is pretty poor.
First of all, they are hawking a VPN product. So it is in their interest to make the problem seem big.
Second, they argue VPN can shield against cookies. That’s to do with the browser, not the connection.
Third, their frequent use of the loaded “artificial intelligence” just bothers me … most of the algorithms they describe has nothing to do with AI/ML, but sounds like fairly simple, rules-based decisions. In fact, if I was interested is giving a discount to people who lived close to a competitor of mine, training an ML algorithm to do it sounds error-prone and poor.
ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 year ago
We are recommending VPNs in general, but are not “hawking” or selling a specific one.
Second, we did not say a VPN hides against cookies. Cookies can easily be erased in the browser. This article is discussing browser fingerprints, which neither a VPN nor cookies deal with. Your reading comprehension is shockingly low.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Or maybe it wasn’t written well?
“Simplified Privacy is here to help with a VPN solution that can obscure your browser fingerprint and enable you to step back and more clearly see discrimination.”
That sounded like hawking a specific product; I’m sure you could understand why.
You are arguing in the article that a VPN helps obscuring your browser fingerprint - and then say in your response to me that it can’t.
ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 year ago
Ah ok, that was meant for someone who wants to setup OpenVPN on a VPS that they can SSH into. But this person does not want to do the work. So the company can provide the service of setting up what you like on a VPS