This is a company that's been reported to use the dwell time of you mouse over a product as a potential indicator of interest. Something like a Citrix remote desktop is extremely chatty trying to keep the origin and server in sync with every move of a mouse or keystroke. If the ACKs from the origin confirming the receipt of screen change data took an abnormally long time it could show in system performance metrics pretty easily.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How did Amazon know the lag?
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 month ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
to use the dwell time of you mouse over a product as a potential indicator of interest
That’s common internet marketing practice and the main reason to use an adblocker.
But didn’t they start to eye-track their drivers? Stuff like that.
credo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Probably a remote kvm system with QOS monitoring. Many secure systems won’t let you connect directly to sensitive resources from your personal workstation.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
So they cannot simply use a generic remote desktop? The infiltrator has to use some Amazon remote desktop software?
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Keyboard input over kvm is pretty awful. It’s possible the kvm software was enforcing a delay between keystrokes to make sure they are delivered in order. Seeing keys consistently pressed with 500ms separation would be odd.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Perhaps something like time between key pressed and key released being abnormally high? Or erratic mouse movement?
I know whenever a PC I’m using is being remotely controlled, the mouse jerks around instead of moving smoothly around the screen. I’d imagine that gets even worse with ping/more layers of remote connections.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes but you need access to the culprit’s computer for the lag measurement.