Comment on CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not blocking them from tracking you. You’re only blocking yourself from seeing the ads they’ve chosen to show you based on the tracking they’ve already done.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It depends on the exact kind of ad, kind of tracking it uses, and kind of blocking method you’re using.

    Are you ever 100% untracked?

    No.

    But this is a data game, the less you give up, the less they have, the less accurate it is, the more stale it is, the less specific things about you can be gleaned from it.

    ublock origin + canvas blocker + privacy badger + forcing DOH by default?

    Thats a lot better than doing nothing.

    Much of the existing stuff doesn’t even load.

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