Hacker News: Conting

New comment by Conting in "Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking"

Conting — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:24:45 +0000

Google could attempt a traffic correlation attack when someone visits YouTube, Google or Gmail. They run the first hop and the web service. In Tor, this would be like running the Guard and Exit Node.

For example, Wade looks at the YouTube homepage, watches a video, returns to the homepage and watches another video.

For each of these actions, Wade's IP address to the Google proxy stays the same. Also for each of these actions, the YouTube account or cookie stays the same.

All of Wade's browsing uses the Google proxy, and YouTube can't see the IP address. But thousands of times, the same volume of data goes through the proxy at the same time YouTube sends it. Over time, Google could guess that IP address A is connected to YouTube account B.

New comment by Conting in "YouTube Simplifying and Improving Ad Controls"

Conting — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 23:32:29 +0000

At least it's simple.

New comment by Conting in "Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers"

Conting — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:03:55 +0000

Google can also use people's IP address since so many use Gmail, Android, YouTube or Google Sync.

New comment by Conting in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

Conting — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 06:46:00 +0000

>Mainstream VPNs actually reduce privacy

They help to mitigate IP based tracking.

New comment by Conting in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

Conting — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 06:32:02 +0000

The Firefox extension "Fingerprint Shield" will show you when a canvas is generated in your browser. You can try it out on Best Buy.

https://archive.ph/ZjnwY