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- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
People completely misunderstand this feature (which is only a temporary prototype anyways), and I think that’s entirely Mozilla’s fault. They do a really poor job explaining it.
Usually ad networks implement sophisticated tracking, which works in a highly invasive way. They need the telemetry to watch their campaigns. Firefox now offers the option to collect a minimal amount of data for them and inform the network indirectly.
This is a good thing for the end user. The trackers are not needed, you gain privacy. Disabling the option makes it so you’re instantly tracked MORE.
Mozilla shouldn’t have staged this as an opt-out of the new system. You actually OPT-IN to networks running their old scripts on your machine to collect your telemetry:
[ ] Allow ad networks to run their own telemetry
(Beta functionality, some advertisers may still run their own trackers, even when this option is disabled.)
That would be the same thing, but communicate what it’s doing.
The fact that advertisers like Meta might be on board with this should be exciting to people. That they are even considering giving up so much data and now only receive a single number of impressions per campaign is very unexpected.
Also, none of this matters if you block ads anyways. If you don’t load the ad, neither the networks script runs its telemetry, nor does Firefox increase the counter for the campaign id.
If you’re wondering what’s every involved party’s gain in this, an interesting read is the IPA white paper, where the overall design targets for the system are stated: Interoperable Private Attribution (IPA), 2022
In particular:
In designing IPA, we set out to find a win-win-win solution for cross platform attribution measurement that met our goals across privacy, utility, and competition.
• Privacy: data collected about the user is minimized, protecting the end-users privacy. • Utility: the telemetry process is unified and simplified across all platforms, reducing the costs • Competition: it will be an open, standardized system, accessible to everyone
Just to be clear, I dislike the way Mozilla rolled this out. They already have a “Studies” checkmark that people can enable if they wish to participate in stuff like this. That Mozilla treats this prototype differently is actually not ok, and breaks trust with their users. But as far as I’m concerned, this is a completely separate topic from the update content, which I wish to be successful.
- Comment on World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site (Hianime.to) Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threat 1 month ago:
Is there a way to save that site?
hianime.to and animeflv.net
- Comment on World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site (Hianime.to) Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threat 1 month ago:
Is there any way to save this site? Maybe the cloud links? that we can later repost so that we can reproduce the website incase they take it down?
Maybe make back ups on separate cloud services
Like personal telegram chats that we can later post incase they take all cloud links down?
- World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site (Hianime.to) Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threatwww.cbr.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 1 month ago:
Source?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 27 comments
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- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
Unions can affect productivity of a cooperation which might cause job loss
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Yep same thing happened to me
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Not really, i just don’t want to see another islamist state
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
I am apolitical
- Comment on Telegram will allow users to report illegal content in private chats 1 month ago:
Well that didn’t take long now Zlibrary is getting their books removed
- Comment on Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well 2 months ago:
Is it possible to make it in non-latin?
- Comment on Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well 2 months ago:
In usernames?
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 2 months ago:
Quick archive it All
Use archive.is or archive.org
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
That was impractically small
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
I gave up on play station when they required paid multiplayer
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
Or perhaps sooner depends on how desperate sony gets or how soon outdated ps5 gets
- PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028www.ign.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
This one is different it’s not like hololens or apple apple goggles
It’s the glasses that we wear every day
- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
Apple and samsung have also said to be working on ar glasses to release by 2027
- Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027www.theinformation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 21 comments
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- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels
- Comment on New Key Visual for ‘Terminator Zero’ 2 months ago:
Hasta la vista onee chan
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans. 2 months ago:
Welcome true, hope you enjoy your stay!
