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  • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldGoogle has a price for you. We found it.
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    15 hours ago

    This feels like a good post to mention AdNauseam! For anyone who wants an adblocker that helps more than just you! It basically blocks ads but also sends a click request to every ad that should have been loaded. The data being sent with this request contains spoofed garbage data that makes the tracking data sets lose value. It also keeps a funny metric on how much the estimated cost for your clicks is :)


  • Basically same,

    • Linux and Graphene
    • IronFox/Zen Browser with Adnauseam, Sponsorblock, DeArrow and ClearURLs
    • Mullvad VPN with AdBlock (off because of Adnauseam).
    • GrayJay instead of YouTube.
    • SimpMusic + Locally downloaded songs for music.
    • Local media server for movies

    Only places i have yet to tighten privacy (AFAIK) is email and chats (did make a burner acc on Discord and deleted the old one though). I dont use social media apart from the fediverse. All those accounts are deleted.

    Update:

    I do use K9 Mail and Thunderbird for email clients and F-droid and Aurora Store as an app store replacement.





  • Your comment seems very dismissive in the way you phrase this as intended behaviour. A security flaw like this can impossibly be intended behaviour.

    In my previous comment i also say thats calling it malware is a bit far-fetched but the security issues are absolutely there and should not be dismissed as “intended behaviour”. Especially not by a company like Anthropic.

    I am not well versed in extension development but is there anything stopping me from making an open source extension and just defining the ID as one of the three in the article? It most likely couldnt be released via the chrome addon store but if it is installed outside of thar? And how are these IDs read after install, could it potentially be altered by something from the outside?

    I immediately see so many flaws with this implementation it is worrying that a company the size of Anthropic does this.



  • Even if this was an opt-in feature the implementation is still terrible and a massive security hole. If id wanted the desktop app entirely and solely for this purpose i still would not expect my browser extension to have full access to my computer. I understand the app does, not the browser extension.

    No matter how you twist and turn this situation Anthtopic has still introduced a major security issue in their application. It might be a bit far to call it malware immediately but it sure does open up a massive attack vector to take advantage of.

    The fact that the end user is not even informed or have a choice about this makes it all the more problematic and Anthropic not commenting on it makes me think its either intentional or at the very least already known.





  • Bleep is a person who has changed my life, Ive never seen someone be so misinformed and at the same time so far up their own ass they pop out of their mouth. It is genuinely impressive.

    I see alot of my teenage self here; doubling down on opinions of subjects i was way too uninformed about to actually have valid opinions on. I did manage to get better though, but that was because i listened to the people who disagreed with me. Especially when proven with the straight up facts that told me i was wrong. Not doing that is in my eyes intentionally malicious or what people refer to as trolling.

    But I really am happy to have witnessed Bleep, even if i havent interacted with them very much. It has been a great exercise to know what content to ignore and report that otherwise looks “fine” on a surface level. So in that regard I thank Bleep.

    On any other level, idk how they came to the conclusion/opinions they did, but i am more than curious to read a study on it!



  • Im curious why you hate watermarks so much? Gaining recognition as an artist by stamping a work as your own is very different than gazillion $ company paying to interrupt your content stream with brainwashing propaganda.

    Either this is a very not-thought through opinion or it is a just another attempt to provide more content with attributions removed to train GenAI LLMs.





  • As a web developer I simply have to tell you that this clearly superior web design is the only thing I ever implement. You have to understand the maximized convenience this workflow gives the user and the UX implementation for this makes the login experience flawlessly seamless without any hickups. /s

    Jokes aside. How the fuck did we even get here?