OpenWPM

OpenWPM is a web privacy measurement framework which makes it easy to collect data for privacy studies on a scale of thousands to millions of websites. OpenWPM is built on top of Firefox, with automation provided by Selenium. It includes several hooks for data collection. Check out the instrumentation section below for more details.
https://github.com/mozilla/OpenWPM

#privacy #cookies #surveillance #firefox
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Germany as a pioneer when it comes to limiting Facebook's data collection madness.
Will other countries now follow them restricting Facebook's data collection madness?

German Cartel Office restricts data collection from Facebook

Facebook has a dominant market position in Germany - and abuses it:
This has now been decided by the Bundeskartellamt. It prohibits the merging of data, Whatsapp and Instagram are also affected.

❗️The Bundeskartellamt has prohibited Facebook from collecting data outside the online network, for example with the Like button, because it sees unfair competition in it. Facebook has a dominant position in Germany and abuses it, the authority declared on 7 February 2019.

The Cartel Office also prohibited Facebook from merging the data collected on third-party websites with information collected from the users themselves on the platform of the online network. The authority also considers apps belonging to the group, such as Instagram and Whatsapp, to be third-party sources.

👉 https://www.golem.de/news/like-kartellamt-schraenkt-datensammelei-von-facebook-ein-1902-139243.html
👉 https://t.me/cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE/2087

#Facebook #Bundeskartellamt #Cookies #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Instagram #Messenger #SozialesNetz #Whatsapp
#Internet #DeleteFacebook #DeleteWhatsapp
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Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from almost all "infected" websites

The EU regulations require that any website using cookies must get user's permission before installing them. These warnings appear on most websites until the visitor agrees with the website's terms and conditions. Imagine how irritating that becomes when you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser.

This add-on will remove these annoying cookie warnings from almost all websites! You can report any website which still warns you about cookies: make a right click and choose 'Report a cookie warning' from the menu.

By using this add-on, you explicitly allow websites to do whatever they want with cookies they set on your computer (which they mostly do anyway, whether you allow them or not). Please educate yourself about cookie related privacy issues and ways to protect yourself and your data. For example, you can block 3rd party cookies, install ad blocking extensions and then block tracking tools, delete browsing data regularly, enable Tracking Protection in your browser etc.

Options:

🍪 Ublock Origin
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin
Ublock settings -> Annoyance list -> select Fanboy's Cookiemonster list


🍪 I don't care about cookies
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu

Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/

Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-cookies/fihnjjcciajhdojfnbdddfaoknhalnja

Palemoon
https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/other/i-dont-care-about-cookies

Ublock Origin
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/


🍪 Consent Manager

Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-manager/

Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-manager/gpkoajillfmlpnglbagpplnphadbfalh


#cookies #extension #firefox #ff #chrome

Listening Back Browser Add-On Tranlates Cookies Into Sound

‘Listening Back’ is an add-on for the Chrome and Firefox browsers that sonifies internet cookies in real time as one browses online. Utilising digital waveform synthesis, ‘Listening Back’ provides an audible presence for hidden infrastructures that collect personal and identifying data by storing a file on one’s computer. By directing the listener’s attention to hidden processes of online data collection, Listening Back functions to expose real-time digital surveillance and consequently the ways in which our everyday relationships to being surveilled have become normalised.

Our access to the World Wide Web is mediated by screen devices and ‘Listening Back’ enables users to go beyond the event on the screen and experience some of the algorithmic surveillance processes that underlie our Web experience. This project therefore explores how sound can help us engage with complex phenomena beyond the visual interface of our smart devices by highlighting a disconnect between the graphical interface of the Web, and the socio-political implications of background mechanisms of data capture.

By sonifying a largely invisible tracking technology ‘Listening Back’ critiques a lack of transparency inherent to online monitoring technologies and the broader context of opt in / default cultures intrinsic to contemporary modes of online connectivity. By providing a sonic experiential platform for the real-time activity of Internet cookies this project engages listening as a mode of examination and asks what is the potential of sound as a tool for transparent questioning?

👉🏼 Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/listening-back/gdkmphlncmoloepkpifnhneogcliiiah

👉🏼 Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/listening-back/

💡 Read more:
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events/10855.html

#addon #chrome #firefox #CCC #36c3 #cookies #ListeningBack
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Google starts [more greedy] testing its replacement for third-party cookies

Chrome will drop third-party cookie support when the tokens are ready.

Google has taken one step closer to banishing third-party cookies from Chrome. The internet giant has started testing its trust tokens with developers, with promises that more would move to live tests “soon.” As before, the company hoped to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome once it could meet the needs of both users and advertisers.

Trust tokens are meant to foster user trust across sites without relying on persistent identifying data like third-party cookies. They theoretically prevent bot-based ad fraud without tying data to individuals. This would be one framework as part of a larger Privacy Sandbox including multiple open standards.

https://www.engadget.com/google-tests-ad-trust-tokens-223104543.html

#google #ads #cookies #privacy

How to deal with Google's and YouTube's aggressive popups (before you continue, sign in)

When you visit Google's main website for the first time, or after clearing cookies, you get a "before you continue" popup. On YouTube, another Google property, you will get a "sign in to YouTube" popup instead.

You need to click on "I agree" on Google's site or "no thanks" on YouTube to get rid of these popups and start using the sites.

Problem is: if you clear cookies regularly, you will get these prompts again. It can be quite annoying to deal with these popups each time, e.g. to inform YouTube for the hundredth time that you don't want to sign-in to the site.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/27/how-to-deal-with-googles-and-youtubes-aggressive-popups-before-you-continue-sign-in


#youtube #yt #google #popups #cookies
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Firefox 86 introduces 'Total Cookie Protection'

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection

#ff #Firefox #cookies

Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

Notes an 'erosion of trust' – gee, wonder who could be responsible for that...

Google says it will not come up with new ways to track individual netizens as they browse the web once Chrome phases out third-party cookies, commonly used for loosely observing people's online activities.

In effect, the browser will not provide ad networks – and Google runs a very large one – alternative identifiers that can be used to follow individuals around the web, though it's not clear exactly how this will impact Google, which already has a variety of ways to shadow internet users.

Early last year, Google announced a plan to kill off third-party cookies, often used to associate you with the websites you visit so that adverts tailored to your interests can be shown on pages. Google made the move after other major browser makers decided to block third-party cookies by default because the little scraps of data can be abused to subvert privacy, and after regulators made it clear they had concerns about ad tech giants Google and Facebook.

Google aims to replace third-party cookies with its Privacy Sandbox, an umbrella term for a set of proposals from Google and other ad tech firms, to allow behavioral ad targeting to continue without individualized tracking identifiers.

Instead, the ad goliath intends to target broad groups of netizens defined by a common interest – eg, jazz fans – through a system called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), and at narrower groups defined by past interest-based interaction, through a scheme called FLEDGE (First "Locally-Executed Decision over Groups.")

Google plans to start testing FLoC-based cohorts publicly via origin trials in next month's release of Chrome and to make testing available for advertisers in Q2.

The idea has alarmed the ad industry, which isn't keen to give up the ability to track people and has proposed alternatives like a new identifier based on data like email addresses, normally classified as personal information.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/google_internet_tracking_pledge/

#google #DeleteGoogle #internet #tracking #advertising #cookies #chrome #browser #thinkabout #why
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Everytime you try and go on a website

https://nitter.fdn.fr/5tevieM/status/1375116382770171906#m

#thinkabout #cookies #video
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Use the DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome

Google has created a new tracking method called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users.

💡 FLoC is bad for privacy: It puts you in a group based on your browsing history, and any website can get that group FLoC ID to target and fingerprint you.

You can use the DuckDuckGo Chrome extension (pending Chrome Web Store's approval of our update) to block FLoC's tracking, which is an enhancement to its tracker blocking and directly in line with the extension's single purpose of protecting your privacy holistically as you use Chrome.

DuckDuckGo Search (via our website duckduckgo.com) is now also configured to opt-out of FLoC, regardless if you use our extension or app.

https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22376110/duckduckgo-privacy-floc-block-chrome-extension-advertising-tech

#ddg #DuckDuckGo #google #FLoC #chrome #browser #ad #targeting #tracking #cookies #DeleteGoogle
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#Firefox extends its anti-tracking #cookies protection to #Android

https://archive.is/cBiHj

Your money or your #cookies!
by Enrique Dans
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/your-money-or-your-cookies-c7e295da126a

¡Las cookies o la pasta!
https://www.enriquedans.com/2024/01/las-cookies-o-la-pasta.html

The dilemma has never been clearer: from the moment Google decided to eliminate third party cookies that allowed our data, habits and interests to be marketed immediately to thousands of companies, just about every website demands that we allow cookies; otherwise, pay up.

What are they trying to tell us? Facebook users should know that there are more than 48,000 companies telling Meta about everything you do: what you read, your interests, where you go, what time leave home and return home, your political views, what products or services you are interested in, your health, your social class, your religion, your sexual or political preferences … everything you can, or can’t imagine. Everything. Tens of thousands of nasty companies constantly spying on you and trafficking your data.

What’s more, this mess is down to our own stupidity: something so obviously a gross violation of our privacy that it defies understanding as to why it isn’t illegal. In the meantime, a growing number of websites are now cashing in: either you agree to be a part of this sinister system, or we’ll charge you. Your money or your cookies.

Let’s look a little closer at that blackmail: what we’re really being told is that either we surrender our privacy, or we will have to pay. Does that make sense, considering that our privacy should, in any civilized country, be protected by law simply because it is a fundamental right? Shouldn’t it be forbidden to demand that someone give up a fundamental right and threaten them with payment if they don’t?

To which some might answer: but how are websites supposed to make money otherwise? Don’t be taken in by that kind of warped reasoning. Websites can make money with advertising in the same way media traditionally have: by accepting that whoever visits them has a certain profile that will attract certain products and services. Generic ads, like those on the radio, television or in the press, which don’t involve spying on their users. But of course, greed leads some content providers to want more, and to demand that we reveal at all costs who the hell we are, so they can store all that information linked to our profile. Why? To make money.

To which some might counter, well they should pay more… BUT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL, because I am being forced to give up my fundamental right to privacy. And by doing what you are doing, you are collaborating with a disgusting, indecent activity that generates an industry that should never have existed. By extorting your users you are only feeding that disgusting industry and forcing them to sell something that should never be sold: their individuality, the data that characterizes them, and even preferences that respond to data, such as health, religious, sexual or political preferences, which are subject to special protection. But you don't care: all you want is to keep your business model above all else, even if in reality it only contributes to enriching those companies and doesn't even give you a good pass to yourself.


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