90% of people aren’t worth the time
I imagine it’s somewhere between what both of you are saying.
I imagine “randomized” means a random common “fingerprint” (with parameters like user agent, language, etc) rather than just a unique set of randomized parameters (say, time zone in US but language set to Farsi which would be unique to an extent).
From their domain that I’ve already blocked with DNS? Or are you talking about first-party scripts calling Google (which I’ve also seen though much more rare)?
In any case I block those too.
Right, that’s why I mentioned all the blocking at the DNS and browser extension level — most fingerprinting is being done by third-parties — I generally don’t see first parties fingerprinting but if they do it’s likely a website I chose to be on rather than some shady <script> from God knows where.
My thinking is that most of the fingerprinting is happening by third parties, and where it’s the website operators themselves I’m not super concerned about being fingerprinted.
I’m here with multi-hop VPN with the first two hops staying in-country and the rest all random + a shit load of DNS blocking lists and browser extensions + blocking Google. I use different VPN providers too. I’m also introducing variable delays to my traffic to make NetFilter data less helpful.
And remember: this won’t work with “hidden” SSIDs.
From what I recall hidden SSIDs will always be used for location services.
Okay Google-based LLM
I think it’s valid to call out this behavior as sick because frankly, it is. I’m not sure what makes you think it’s right to torture wildlife like this.
Why wouldn’t you just try other recipes? I wouldn’t want to go back to the garbage I ate as a meat eater anyway; there is so much variety out there that doesn’t depend on eating animals.
Well lucky for me they don’t use AWS so I haven’t seen an outage in 10+ years.
I haven’t used AWS in years. No IPv6 support in S3 in 2017 was the last straw for me. I have to deal with it at work (sometimes) and always laugh when they introduce “new” features like HTTPS records in Route53 like two years late.
Why do you say AWS, Azure and Google are the only options? I don’t use any of those greedy companies’ platforms.
Yes, I use Tailscale but WireGuard is another great option that’s simpler for more tech-savvy people.
Yeah, when I can’t access my bank account the first thing I do is “touch grass.” 🥴
Once per year? I had outages much more often than that on AWS.
I said “fucking with animals” but you already knew that you troll.
I’ve been vegan now for seven years and I literally just did it because I got tired of fucking with animals. I went from full-on carnivore to 100% vegan in a week; compared to quitting nicotine or even caffeine (easy) becoming vegan was by far the easiest life change I’ve ever made.
(Honestly I don’t know why anyone would consider it hard: you just stop eating animal products.)
I laugh every time AWS goes down. That’s what you fucking get, and don’t get me started on us-east-1 specifically.
Sorry but that’s totally wrong.
The entire point is that if it’s unique it can be considered a fingerprint — in fact the entire reason it’s called “fingerprint” is that in theory it’s unique like a real fingerprint.
If it’s common then it’s unreliable as a fingerprint because it’s no longer unique. Therefore whether it’s unique or not is the entire point and relevant to the topic.