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Another benefit of moving to lemmy, less tracking. Win win, I must say.
Edit: another 3 year old post. Sorting by hot is more than definitely bugged… Hope they fix it somewhat soon, cause idk what is going on.
Oh wow, it got me as well… Had no idea this was three years old haha.
Yeah I also get 3 year old posts randomly. A bit weird, not to say they are bad ones but…
I sorted by active and it popped up for me as well.
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Jeez, how did we get to a point where distributing just straight-up spyware became normal?
the joys of the internet getting commercialized
That is an interesting question I am far to suggest such a sharp reason.
There’s always been a compromise between security/privacy and convenience. The more convenient you make something, the more people who’ll accept that compromise. Combine that with ignorance of privacy concerns, active persuasion that privacy concerns are out of fashion (if you’ve got nothing to hide…), and a effective cartel of non-privacy respecting options, and, well, here we are.
I mean, the norm anymore is that “the internet” means Facebook, Amazon Google, Reddit, and Twitter. If you’re using an alternative to one of those, it’s not uncommon that the assumption is that it’s because you got kicked off the big corporate sites for being an undesirable.
This does not surprise me in the slightest.
I already isolated the fuck out of Reddit and the links I clicked there with Temporary Containers. But it doesn’t surprise me that they’re now trying to reach around the well known fingerprinting mitigations.
The fact they’re even considering adopting such invasive scripts is the perfect sign that Reddit is dead.
I just hope the plebs don’t stay asleep for too long…though they’re being so egregiously pushy right now, that it’s only a matter of time before even the common user gets pissed off thoroughly.
It’s been 3 years and no one has done a thing about this, people who’ve stayed on reddit simply do not care about their privacy.
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If that how “fingerprinting” looks like… the attack surface is so large that there is no way to protect against it. They even exploit vulnerabilities and JIT bug. All in the name of bot protection?
from the article:
“Reddit’s source code uses bundling and minification”
Would be nice if uMatrix could detect obfuscation on any j/s it retrieves, and have 2 separate switches: one for retrieval & one for execution. Users have to guess on what to trust and this would help ppl make more informed decisions.
BTW, I will not upvote the OP b/c it sends ppl to a CloudFlare site. This is a replacement link.
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