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Well, it's always been a cat and mouse game.
Just earlier today, I got a pop-up on YouTube about how they would block me after 3 videos because I use an ad blocker. Jump to now and everything is fine again. Thank you, uBlock Origin!
they still try that?
i can't remember the last time i have seen one of those warnings.
I'm guessing you use Firefox? It's much better at evading that tracking.
Nah I saw it on FF as well. Forcing an update on the "Quick Fixes" blocklist on uBlock Origin got rid of it.
The business cycle dictates that companies try to re-implement bad ideas every six months to two years.
If the idea was good, they'd have implemented it and made their money. Only bad ideas are still ripe for exploitation and new economic growth, because you haven't had someone as smart as me to make them work right.
Google doesn't do global roll outs with their updates. The anti adblock stuff especially. They target only some % of randomly selected users to spread confusion online, and I would guess their hope is to frustrate people into disabling ad blockers on Youtube after reading a bunch of misinformation and placebo bad advice when looking for tech support.
Fair warning: Last week one of my accounts was seemingly shadowbanned, and now gets "This content isn't available" on every video.
Logging out plays videos, making a new brand account worked, etc. and no notification from youtube.
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If you happen to use BlockTube, disable it. It's currently triggering the adblock detection.
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Useless article, but at least they link the source: https://localmess.github.io/
We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts.
📢 UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed.
Thanks for the update, pitchforks down people. Let's go back to blindly trusting these anti consumer cabals.
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Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)
and its leadership barred ~~from working in tech (or politics)~~
I am assuming all of this trash is blocked by uBlock Origin?
Check that "Filter lists > Privacy > Block outsider intrusion into LAN" is enabled and you should be fine
EasyPrivacy should block Meta and Yandex pixels by default. If you have the knowledge you can put uBO in "hard mode" which will block all 3p connections. It requires you to know which CDNs to allow or websites will be broken.
I am aware of hardmode, I used to use NoScript.
It's a bit too much work these days.
We found that browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Edge are susceptible to this form of browsing history leakage in both default and private browsing modes. Brave browser was unaffected by this issue due to their blocklist and the blocking of requests to the localhost; and DuckDuckGo was only minimally affected due to missing domains in their blocklist.
Aside from having uBlock Origin and not having any Meta/Yandex apps installed, anyone aware of additional Firefox settings that could help shut this nonsense down?
I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim "Privacy by default" has held up in this context.
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I feel like that's all you need. You don't have their apps installed, so the problem is already solved. If you use uBlock Origin to block their trackers, the problem is solved. So you've solved it twice.
Yes and no, I've treated the symptoms, but not the problem. All it takes is a trillion dollar company buying a new domain every once in a while to foil uBlock, and now that it's more known, anyone can create an an app that opens ports and listens for trackers.
Would love it if Firefox would let me block all requests to localhost.
De-anonymising Yandex
Me: Ha! Good thing I am not Russian!
De-anonymising Meta
Me: Damn..and it is hard for me to let go because my social circle use Meta-owned social media and couldn't care less about privacy....I am toast...
I used to be in your situation and one day I just told everyone I was leaving and if they want to contact me they would have to use Signal. You can't change most people's minds and Meta knows it, that's how they keep their monopoly
laughs in adguard
Not surprising, it's always expected from tech corporations, where at the end of the day it's profit and favor with conservative politicians. If they're not trying to use information gathered on people to bad government looking to cut costs ("saving taxpayers' money") by removing minority beneficiaries, they love to shove content you don't even want.
Why I never use my real name online.
Block all tracking scripts and use Firefox Nightly with ublock when possible.
Not sure about the "nightly" part (as opposed to beta or stable), but yes.
I prefer nightly because about:config is accessible unlike on the mainline version. Does Beta also allow that?
Beta does and unlike nightly doesn't update every night.
There's also Fennec on fdroid if you need something stable with about:config support.
Are you suggesting something like LineageOS is a better choice?
(Seriously asking: I've got a new-to-me Pixel that I'm looking to switch to a degoogled-ish ROM on, and Graphene and Lineage were the two front-runners.)
I'm running Graphene and I'm very happy with it.
If it's a Pixel anyway, GrapheneOS has a few nice security and privacy features that LineageOS doesn't have (yet?).
I think both are pretty great and much better than most alternates.
Does anyone know if there's additional sandboxing of local ports happening for apps running in Private Space?
E: Checked myself. Can access servers in Private Space from non-Private Space browsers and vice versa. So Facebook installed in Private Space is no bueno. Even if the time to transfer data is limited since Private Space is running for short periods of time, it's likely enough to pass a token while browsing some sites.
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