Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eingebunden war, auch an die Facebook-App gemeldet.
War also gar keine so falsche Entscheidung, keine dieser Apps zu nutzen – und auch keine der zu Meta gehörenden Seiten je anzusurfen, sowie deren Domains gleich im DNS gesperrt zu haben…
Oh man, die Strafe für eine derartige, vorsätzliche Verletzung des Datenschutzes sollte aber bitte richtig heftig ausfallen. Idealerweise "Laden dichtmachen" (wird nicht passieren), 2. Platz: Bußgeld in 9-stelliger Höhe (damit es nicht aus der Portokasse gezahlt werden kann). 🤯
Die Schwierigkeit könnte sein, dass Facebook von den Seitenbetreibern verlangt hat, dafür eine Einwilligung einzuholen. Und vielleicht reicht das auch schon, um diese Technologie zu erlauben ("Weiterleitung von Daten wie Facebook ID an Meta").
Bei der Studie finden sich Ergebnisse von einem Top 100K Seiten Crawl.
Tatsächlich haben demnach auch einige deutsche Seiten das Pixel noch immer ohne Einwilligung in Betrieb, darunter dominos.de cineplex.de
Und immer noch Verlage wie Ippen (OVB24/rosenheim24.de) und Burda (efahrer.chip.de).
Aber ich wüsste nicht, dass deutsche Behörden schon Strafen wegen Metas Pixel ohne Einwilligung verhängt hätten.
Traurig, dass sie das noch nicht haben (Strafen verhängt). Und ja, für die Masche mit "Verantwortung abwälzen" sind sie ja bekannt – siehe "hochladen des Adressbuches" bei WhatsApp, wo der Anwender bestätigen soll, von allen (!!) im Adressbuch die Zustimmung zu haben. Hat Dich schonmal wer gefragt, ob das für Dich OK wäre? Mich nur eine einzige Person. Und ich glaube kaum, dass sonst keiner meiner Kontakte WA nutzt ("Das braucht man doch…") 😔
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@jaybird110127 Your latest boost from 4am is the second time that this INIT HELLO conference has come across my feed. Not gonna lie, I'm tempted to go; it might be fun. But I'm not a hard-core Apple II enthusiast.
@matt I guess I've missed something. They keep talking about INIT HELLO. Has Kansasfest gone by the wayside for some reason? That IIRC used to be the primary Apple II enthusiasts' conference.
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The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them
Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.
> “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
That wasn't what I took from that section. I think the point of that section, and the one after it about plagiarism, was that he thinks we programmers deserve what we've got coming, because of how our work has destroyed so many other kinds of jobs already, and how many of us have flagrantly violated copyright because we want our entertainment now and for free. And both of those sections did give me pause.
@matt You’re outlining his motivation behind his willingness to sacrifice other people’s jobs. Fundamentally, he’s still stating a willingness to sacrifice other people’s jobs.
Also, I don't think all automation is equally bad. I've spent most of my career working on assistive technology for blind people. It's true that before personal computers, OCR, and ebooks, some people could get paid to read text aloud or transcribe it to Braille. But, on the whole, I think it's a good thing that those jobs are obsolete, because probably most blind people didn't have access to readers or transcribers. I guess it's possible my reasoning is self-serving though.
It still hurts me to see tables like this. While I learned that stuff (30 years ago) the base was 1024 instead of 1000.
Using 1000 for Memory like people do it for vegetables looks always like a marketing trick. Just a way to sell me less Memory For the same price. And it works. At just 1TB they embezzling 99511627776 Bytes.
All of these comments simply point out the fact that we should never have used metric prefixes to name binary numbers. Current technology is based on two and powers of two, not on ten and powers of ten! ( Although there might have been an advantage and it would be appropriate had we stuck with processors with 10-bit bytes and 20-bit words.)
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All of this is part of a larger effort to explore p2p code, UX patterns, reusable UI components, debugging tools, organize events and document our learnings.
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I did promise you poetry so, for my day 3, have a reading. I'm not a big fan of my own voice, so sorry about that. But it's one of my favourites. Again, not a studio quality recording or anything: just me and a headset and a Braille printout (can you call Braille a printout?) in my home office.
@KaraLG84 Yeah, I heard a bit of it at school too. But it's lovely to listen to isn't it? 'A certain pleasing rhythm', to quote Stephen Fry. Not that my performance is anything special, but I enjoyed reading it out loud. It's nice when words fall out of your mouth like that.
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Am I the only one who hears Homer pronounce DoH every time I see it?
Also, imagine someone in 1980 read the above sentence. They're thinking some old Greek guy and wondering why I capitalised the word that way. Internet culture is weird.
@lyda I think that just means you've heard it too little. It's like all the "fun" puns on the QUIC protocol. After the first twenty-two, they're not as fun anymore...
If I'm going to be totally honest: implementing anything in #curl is about fourteen times easier and more fun than the thread- and object-spaghetti that is #Firefox code... But don't tell anyone I said this.
I remember hearing about this because the UK ISP lobbying group nominated Mozilla as an Internet Villain when it rolled out: ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-fin…
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It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server. (Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
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sigh, I think the way people expect GTK callbacks to work, versus the way Rust wants to think about memory ownership, is very much at odds. I hate the clone!() macro so much.
I think the solution is unidirectional data flow and functional reactive blah blah blah... as per my GUADEC talk :)
@federicomena I mean, even with unidirectional data flow there still are signals passing values all over the place. You aren't protected from internal signals, and even data-modifying widget signals have a value.
@blandford yeah. I think a convenient thing about UDF is that you may get lucky and only have to ref/clone the single thing-which-receives-your-action-messages, not every single little bit of stuff that will get affected by the signal.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Matthias Eberl • • •War also gar keine so falsche Entscheidung, keine dieser Apps zu nutzen – und auch keine der zu Meta gehörenden Seiten je anzusurfen, sowie deren Domains gleich im DNS gesperrt zu haben…
Oh man, die Strafe für eine derartige, vorsätzliche Verletzung des Datenschutzes sollte aber bitte richtig heftig ausfallen. Idealerweise "Laden dichtmachen" (wird nicht passieren), 2. Platz: Bußgeld in 9-stelliger Höhe (damit es nicht aus der Portokasse gezahlt werden kann). 🤯
Matthias Eberl
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •@IzzyOnDroid
Die Schwierigkeit könnte sein, dass Facebook von den Seitenbetreibern verlangt hat, dafür eine Einwilligung einzuholen. Und vielleicht reicht das auch schon, um diese Technologie zu erlauben ("Weiterleitung von Daten wie Facebook ID an Meta").
Bei der Studie finden sich Ergebnisse von einem Top 100K Seiten Crawl.
Tatsächlich haben demnach auch einige deutsche Seiten das Pixel noch immer ohne Einwilligung in Betrieb, darunter
dominos.de
cineplex.de
Und immer noch Verlage wie Ippen (OVB24/rosenheim24.de) und Burda (efahrer.chip.de).
Aber ich wüsste nicht, dass deutsche Behörden schon Strafen wegen Metas Pixel ohne Einwilligung verhängt hätten.
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Matthias Eberl • • •