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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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The average internet dweller doesn't even know they've lost privacy.
after all, their post has a delete button next to it and their messages say private! They wouldn't just lie
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Even many, many lemmy users believe there is a semblance of privacy on the internet today, or in national businesses with modern IP camera tech. It's all gone.
They have enough telemetry to know who you are between all the details the browser gives them. Hell, most people don't even know what a tracking pixel is or how it has been used for well over a decade.
We're at the point with machine learning that the resources required to process all of these datapoints is trivial even when done onboard fairly cheap devices.
I worked on ad stuff for a very short time where they could tell if they showed you an ad a year ago, and another one, and then if you went to a store, that it was all connected. They would know if you went into a store with presence detection that their ad was working.
Where do their messages still say private? I've not seen that in years. The initialism "PM" seemed to get replaced by "DM" overnight. Also though, many of them didn't lose privacy. Anyone, at the very least in USA, younger than the Patriot Act never had privacy to begin with.