But you knew that right? "Your 'Anonymous' Browsing Data Isn't Actually Anonymous"
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Fri Aug 4 18:48:00 PDT 2017
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:50:04PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:48:11AM -0700, Razer wrote:
> > > To answer this question, Eckert had her colleague delete one browser
> > > plugin every hour until he disappeared from the live data. On the
> > > seventh plugin, he disappeared. This suggested that the plugin
> > > collecting and selling his browser data was, ironically enough, called
> > > Web of Trust, which offers "free tools for safe search and web browsing."
> > >
> > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gygx7y/your-anonymous-browsing-data-isnt-actually-anonymous
>
> With at least 7 plugins of this kind the lusers have bigger problems
> than just passive browsing history.
>
> btw, the history in the image appears entirely of porn to me.
PGLAF cartoon in 3 .. 2 ..
Zero and One, by Anonymous, episode 0000 0000
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0: "Ooh, you dirty little https wanna be url, shamelessly
shedding all your TLS clothes to slink by on http alone..."
1: "No no, it's those skanky little dots after it that are
corrupting the miners."
0: "Oh but that slash!"
1: "Don't get me started! And there's TWO of them, just begging
to be wrapped around each other."
0: "Pervert! You and all your slashes!"
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