Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general

Destry · 2019-02-01 13:13:43

In other news, depending what happens with Brexit, if you live in the UK and own a .eu tld, you’ll lose it soon. Qwant it. ;)

colak · 2019-02-01 16:02:00

Destry wrote #316395:

Without a doubt. And it’s all going here. What they don’t say there, but I’ve read elsewhere, is how massive their carbon footprint is too. It’s insane, like a second Dubai. A slight exaggeration only, but you get the picture. They could at least offset the environmental damage by putting the cruise line industries out of business, or something.

Speaking of NSA and UAE The whole story makes me sick. But then, spies.

I went though these. The world is heading towards an algorithmic apocalypse… Unless global warming gets us first.

Bloke · 2019-02-01 16:33:04

Destry wrote #316396:

In principle, I activate the VPN and then all my browsing and emailing and messaging across the house router is smoke-screened?

Pretty much, yes. Once the desktop widget is activated and you’ve chosen a server, it connects and all external requests tunnel directly to that server; still through your ISP of course so they can see the volume of data you use for billing purposes, but encrypted so they don’t know the sites you visit.

From there, the request goes to the site you asked for, giving them the illusion (as referrer) that you have used the IP address of the server you chose instead of your ISP-assigned address.

General tips:

Choose a server closest to home for the best speeds.
Choose one in a particular country (e.g. US) if you’re trying to read a news article that’s blocked from the States to any EU citizen because they can’t/won’t fathom the GDPR. Also works for blocked videos.
Once logged into the VPN server, use ipleak to check where the web “sees” you from.

Destry · 2019-02-01 18:37:40

Sweet. Thanks, Bloke!

Bloke · 2019-02-02 12:02:16

colak wrote #316405:

The world is heading towards an algorithmic apocalypse…

Seen in a book shop in Fowey, Cornwall recently:

phiw13 · 2019-02-02 12:40:34

Bloke wrote #316421:

Seen in a book shop in Fowey, Cornwall recently: […]

Lol so appropriate for the Zeitgeist in the Anglo-saxon world.

—-
BTW, just leaving this here:

Make: samsung
Model: SM-J500FN

There is more in the source.

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Bloke · 2019-02-02 20:11:08

phiw13 wrote #316422:

BTW, just leaving this here:

Ah yeah, wasn’t too bothered about the metadata but I suppose on a thread about tracking and big data, I should remove it. Have done so (I hope) courtesy of ExifPurge :-)

phiw13 · 2019-02-03 00:24:04

Bloke wrote #316431:

Ah yeah, wasn’t too bothered about the metadata but I suppose on a thread about tracking and big data, I should remove it.

Yeah, opsec 101 and all that. It is amazing how much (private) data is left around for everybody to see in small things.

Have done so (I hope) courtesy of ExifPurge :-)

All gone as far as I can see !

colak · 2019-02-03 06:31:16

Bloke wrote #316421:

Seen in a book shop in Fowey, Cornwall recently:

It’s so hysterically apt!

Destry · 2019-02-06 18:23:09

The quote in here is nice to see said from Msoft’s CEO, at least, whether or not it means anything.

It seems some ears are pricking up. Keep shouting.

michaelkpate · 2019-02-07 19:48:48

A couple of EU Copyright Directive stories:

Italy, which under its previous government had been supporters of Articles 11 and 13 in the EU Copyright Directive, has now made a pretty clear statement that if the country is going to support the latest directive, it needs to protect the users of the web, and the only way to do that is to remove Articles 11 and 13. – Italy Tells Rest Of EU To Drop Articles 11 And 13 From The Copyright Directive

And

Every year, we run thousands of experiments in Search. We recently ran one in the EU to understand the impact of the proposed Article 11 if we could show only URLs, very short fragments of headlines, and no preview images. All versions of the experiment resulted in substantial traffic loss to news publishers. Even a moderate version of the experiment (where we showed the publication title, URL, and video thumbnails) led to a 45 percent reduction in traffic to news publishers. Our experiment demonstrated that many users turned instead to non-news sites, social media platforms, and online video sites—another unintended consequence of legislation that aims to support high-quality journalism. Searches on Google even increased as users sought alternate ways to find information. – Now is the time to fix the EU copyright directive

colak · 2019-04-14 06:27:30

Now that GDPR is in place, the US gov wants the creation of privileged access:

Now its time to deliberately and swiftly create a system that allows for third parties with legitimate interests, like law enforcement, IP rights holders, and cybersecurity experts to access non-public data critical to fulfilling their missions, – www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/redl-to-chalaby-04apr19-en.pdf

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#493 2019-02-01 13:13:43

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#494 2019-02-01 16:02:00

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Destry wrote #316395:

#495 2019-02-01 16:33:04

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Destry wrote #316396:

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#497 2019-02-02 12:02:16

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colak wrote #316405:

#498 2019-02-02 12:40:34

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Bloke wrote #316421:

#499 2019-02-02 20:11:08

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phiw13 wrote #316422:

#500 2019-02-03 00:24:04

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Bloke wrote #316431:

#501 2019-02-03 06:31:16

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