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Oh god, uBlock or privacy badger needs to do this
While funny, the whole idea of tracking your data enough to give you a wrapped kind of goes completely against everything these extensions are supposed to do.
My suggested alternative is you click the wrapped button and it just says:
"Fucked if I know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
It could keep a local count, wouldn’t need to communicate it out. It basically already shows you how many things are getting blocked, it would just be a funny end of year easter egg
Yeah a local record of blocked ads would be trivial to save and no need to upload.
"who cares, fuck em"
Well. uBlock does track total blocks
But it does say right on that page:
Take note that the network request logger in uBO is a forward-looking logger: this means only future requests can be logged.
In the spirit of efficiency, uBO will log entries IF AND ONLY IF the logger is opened. Otherwise, if the logger is not opened, no CPU/memory resources are consumed by uBO for logging purpose.
Or it could just be made up static data
That would legit get me to pay them or donate or something. Such a hilarious idea.
I totally want a uBO version of that
You clicked "Accept all" ONCE in a real hurry, huh?
This used to give me nightmares. Then I learned to love the bomb: Clean out everything each time you close your browser.
And all that's left is your fully trackable browser fingerprint.
So if I'm identified as unique how bad is that? Is fingerprinting so critical that it makes all my other attempts at privacy pointless, or is it a niche edge-case that you don't really need to worry about?
I do not think ads would keep tracking you though browser fingerprinting. Maybe just a little.
But, say, you are being prosecuted and your traffic is being looked at. No one can defend you if a fingerprint of your browser shows up somewhere where it shoulnd't have been. You being a unique one with this fingerprint means that nobody but your machine accessed that IP address.
Would a fingerprint uniqueness hold up in court?
It kinda feels like saying: "we know the crime was committed by someone who's this tall with this hair color and this skin color and has this tattoo on the right arm and who speaks these three languages and we have never seen anyone else who matches all of those things so it must be you"
If it points to your IP but not your PC - probably won't hold. Same if IP is wrong but fingerprint is fine. But if both are matching, there is no doubt. You know, not many Windows 11 Pro Laptops with intel 125H, 4060m, 1440p 144hz screen, Firefox version, exact same font list, system language, setting preferences exist on the planet. It is a fingerprint in the similar way an actual fingerprint works.
Oh right I hadn't thought of combining it with the IP itself.
Yeah, so e.g. you open site A without a VPN and then later, site B with a VPN on the same browser.
Your browser is now recognised and site B may sell you ads based on what you did on site A, or maybe region-block you based on your IP with site A.
The things that give it off (i.e. 0.00%):
- List of fonts (JS)
- I think this should be an easy fix. Just provide some, widely-used fonts to the browser and not all the 200 fonts that are on the system
- HTML5 Canvas
- I have no idea what this is based on, but shouldn't it be possible to randomise it every time, so that even though it is unique every time, it is so for everyone and every time they refresh the page?
- Audio data (sometimes)
- happened in LibreWolf, but not in Firefox
Sure, it's still better to NOT click Accept all once in a hurry.
But my browser does mitigate some of that.
How much does privacy badger help with that
Is this that metadata I hear so much about /s
data shared with 17203 partners
Only 17203? I feel like that's low
I wonder what the 2025 version will be ;)
The "Login teminder popup remover" userscript works well for me. Additionally to an adblocker of course.