Eden @edensaesthetic@witches.town

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- Have moved to Eden@queer.cloud -

Ooh, I decided to get a curiouscat.

https://curiouscat.me/EdensAesthetic

Feel free to ask/tell me stuff! :)

so my housemate just comes into my room like "What is that noise" bcos all we can hear is screaming from upstairs

omg there was a semi-fight in our building because the team from the council came round to clean the hallways

So um I put my mac for repair.

£540 for a broken screen. And five days to repair it.

I'm kinda. Not hyped about this. I did not expect this much

Ooh, I decided to get a curiouscat.

https://curiouscat.me/EdensAesthetic

Feel free to ask/tell me stuff! :)

so many selfies tonight, all y'all fuckers are cuties. :)

ugh why do you people have such a good turkey-day.

i'm like eating huel and getting high and actually i'm kinda okay with this BUT I WANT TO DO THE WHOLESOME THING.

Also gonna be using PrivacyBadger over the next week out of curiosity if it gets better.

But right now it's still not blocking Tealium and it doesn't even KNOW that the custom tracker is on.

Hopefully at least like 3 of you that follow me/saw this weird tootstorm and were interested in learning about this stuff.

If you want to actually see what's being sent - check https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waspinspector-analytics-s/niaoghengfohplclhbjnjheodgkejpih - it's fairly bae for seeing what people really track. Starbucks was one of my favourites for the sheer AMOUNT OF STUFF they track.

You just wanna mess with what I track?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg

or find out ways to artificially set dom_referrer to other things. That's one of the few that we _need_ but doesn't benefit YOU at all.

But realistically that only sorts out the chaff, there's a lot of nastier tracking out there than Tealium/Omniture.

So if you want to really track people, your choices are:

Canvas Fingerprinting & Evercookie. Both are pretty unethical, and hilarious bad for business. So it's mostly porn sites who use it tbh.

Canvas Fingerprinting can be blocked using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canvasfingerprintblock/ipmjngkmngdcdpmgmiebdmfbkcecdndc

and Chrome/Safari seem to remove evercookie now https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/issues/125 but I'd have to check the new FF out myself.

ohmygod this was a joke because it was annoying me when I was doing analysis.

Blocking trackers is a lot easier than that method because realistically trackers rely on a few core principles:

1. Users don't know how to artificially set variables.
2. Users are willing to run _any_ javascript the page requests.

First & Foremost - If you need actual privacy, TOR/VPN, a freshly installed browser with no JavaScript/Flash is enough, and be normal in user behaviour.

If you just want to block trackers - Ghostery is pretty solid - that takes care of some of 2.
I tried PrivacyBadger but it missed all custom trackers and some less known ones..

guess who's grumpy AF that someone not only BROWSED like that, but they BOUGHT THINGS like that.

SO
if you really want to fuck with your local data-marketing-analyst/scientist who tracks website data.

browse purely through translate.google.com - it will load pages entirely, your IP will still be visible, but it's a PAIN IN THE ARSE to work out what URLs you visited, how you got there, or what you did on site.