kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@hansw@mastodon.social Right now it's based on PhantomJS and a number of Python workers around it. It only works from a single location in Germany now which may be a limitation, but adding more workers in different locations is possible.

@hansw@mastodon.social @aral BTW ElPais has more than 5 trackers - Adobe, Facebook Google, Krux set cookies but it also links pixels from Scorecardresearch, Prisasd, Chartbeat, Demdex and other crap...

https://webcookies.org/cookies/elpais.com/5155704

And yes, it's absolutely possible to build website without trackers - I have zero third-party dependencies in WebCookies.org :)

@hansw@mastodon.social @aral Gravatar is Wordpress, the only Google code it seems to use is Google Fonts

@hansw@mastodon.social @aral Here https://social.privacytools.io/web/statuses/103161047291263877

@hansw@mastodon.social This is absolutely true, the whole article was 100% about Google <> publishers, not publishers <> readers.

On the latter @aral is speaking tomorrow in European Parliament with a very nice presentation :)

@hansw@mastodon.social Well, the narrative back then was "if you offend Google, your traffic will disappear".

That was obviously not true.

The fact that they're still using GA is a separate problem. I recently made fun publicly of The Guardian or some other news who ranted about surveillance economy on their page which is stuffed with trackers...

@hansw@mastodon.social ACTA2 was not about privacy & tracking, it was FUD driven by Google to scare people into thinking they will now have shut down their private blogs and pay "link tax"

@aral Ah, black "forward" arrow on black background, it took me a while to notice :)

Remember "EU will shutdown Internet" #acta2 shitstorm? As it comes out, since Google News demonstrably shut down in Spain "unique monthly visitors is actually increasing with many publishers", as are profits as they got rid of middlemen

https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/google-news-shutdown-in-spain-not-as-bad-as-google-would-have-you-believe/

@paragwei Oh this is really nice, as I'm just planning to roll out ETH support on webcookies.org but didn't know this one

Anyone used/evaluated Steve Gibson's SQLR #authentication scheme?

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

From usability perspective it looks brilliant. Android app on F-Droid implies open-source.

Extracting cipher key from WhatsApp on Android >= 7 without root #whatsapp #android #androidsecurity https://plainsec.org/extracting-cipher-key-from-whatsapp-on-android-7-and-greater-without-root/

After #france has switched off 3 units at Crues nuclear power plant, it immediately *doubled* its #co2 emissions per kWh. Still, it's 4x less than #germany

#climatechange

Construction of "power vertical" of 2000's continued in the Russian Internet sector... https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/18/yandex-proposes-sweeping-restructure-allay-government-concerns-a68209 #russia #media