Dated, but the point still applies: In-Store Tracking Companies Try to Self-Regulate Privacy...
@mirimir: Interesting, bookmarked. If I may just ask: does the Google Play Store require a Google Account that in turn requires a mobile number...
Well, I (like the article) was talking about Android and IOS apps. I was also thinking about common (or reasonably achievable) scenarios. For...
Regarding updating... https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/PCzoYCfi_fk (Apr 23, 2019) [meta] BITS Update download...
I don't think the study addresses the issue of informing Google/Apple (and any partners that may learn of app store activity) of your health...
We'd assume that readers of a privacy forum care. In addition, and from the paper we're talking about: I have a feeling that many other...
"Hyperlink auditing" aka "ping attribute" aka "<a ping>" is a mechanism that is explicitly designed for click reporting/tracking. When a user...
PrivacyScore (beta): https://privacyscore.org/ What is PrivacyScore? PrivacyScore is an automated website scanner that allows you to investigate...
May be some test servers around too. Although, a given resolver might be using a whitelist to selectively forward.
@Stefan Froberg: Thank you for the EDNS stuff. I've looked at some things, including:...
I sometimes use DNS logs in conjunction with remote IP Address logs in order to determine what hostname was being communicated with. Particularly...
Nothing in my post was a quote from someone else. I was just making a clearly reasonable point about it being very foolish to assume identical...
There are very many ISPs, as well as companies/groups which operate their own network and would be considered an ISP for this discussion. Not to...
I expect the answer would be location specific. Here in the United States, we don't have an adequate regulatory environment for protecting the...
@mirimir: Hi. As you would likely know, removing/blocking specific individual updates could be useful where the user understood what they were...
Some extensions provide their own on/off switch and voluntarily stop performing their actions when asked to do so. That, obviously, couldn't be...
That netstat output shows information about sockets. The sockets with a Local Address of 0.0.0.0 will receive traffic sent to any of the host's...
Yes. If both HTTP and HTTPS are available, how do you detect that the HTTPS server is serving what the user wants and it is correct in all...
It is easy for a browser to safely detect encryption/cert problems. It is only *sometimes* easy for a browser to safely detect that HTTPS can't...
The terms client and server are used to distinguish between the sides of a communication, the role each side plays, the actions each performs....
A few higher level things: Review Microsoft's privacy policies for the OS and related services you might be exposed to. It is a good place to...
@zapjb : Congrats on the new lappy. I hope you like it. Does HP provide you Windows 7 Pro installed via downgrade rights, a factory restore that...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/the-processor-is-not-supported-together-with-the-windows-version-that...
If someone argues that opt-in can't be used because it will result in "biased" data, it is very likely that they will eventually also argue for...
Aaahhh, the good ol' days. When you had a chance of spotting the pref switcheroo and could use the new one. Now they cripple APIs and carve out...
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