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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 92963" data-source="post: 974528"><p>@</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the info: I stopped following the development of this extension because of the disappointing discussion I had with them. Now it seems that they agree that blurring and blocking has to be done right (or else it makes you easier to track). So they did some research and sort of changed their finger printing counter strategy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>As I have posted earlier Google has proposed a similar mechanism, where websites get some 'fingerprinting' credit and when a website exceeds its credits (meaning it gathers more profiling info than needed), the browser would block all futher fingerprinting requests.</p><p></p><p>So I like this new view on how to tackle fingerprinting for three reasons:</p><p>1. It evades the problem of balancing blurring and blocking (with many overlapping mechanism to extract data points to profile), this heuristic approach which makes it a lot simpler</p><p>2. The proposed heuristics mechanism seems related to the one proposed by Google (always reassuring when a big player and contributor to W3C standards shares your opinion)</p><p>3. Heuristics based blocking has been a proven and successful approach in the past (remember PrivacyPossum) for a privacy enhancing extension</p><p></p><p>You can argue that Google is coming with a similar solution in the future, but</p><p>a) It is Google, what level of fingerprinting does the largest advertising platform finds acceptable (similar to 'acceptable' ads, to whose standard are these acceptable)?</p><p>b) JShelter offers it now, so why wait when it is already available now</p><p></p><p>Edge's new automatic profile switching becomes real handy with this new JShelter heuristics block mode. In your (default for all websites) Strict mode profile you can install JShelter and for bookmarked websites you can switch to the more relaxed profile without JShelter. I agree with [USER=71262]@oldschool[/USER] the current implementation is a bit rough on the edges and the protection might not be worth the extra hassle. All in all it is just version 0.6 and to their credits they seem to have taken a more promising counter strategy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 92963, post: 974528"] @ Thanks for the info: I stopped following the development of this extension because of the disappointing discussion I had with them. Now it seems that they agree that blurring and blocking has to be done right (or else it makes you easier to track). So they did some research and sort of changed their finger printing counter strategy :)(y) As I have posted earlier Google has proposed a similar mechanism, where websites get some 'fingerprinting' credit and when a website exceeds its credits (meaning it gathers more profiling info than needed), the browser would block all futher fingerprinting requests. So I like this new view on how to tackle fingerprinting for three reasons: 1. It evades the problem of balancing blurring and blocking (with many overlapping mechanism to extract data points to profile), this heuristic approach which makes it a lot simpler 2. The proposed heuristics mechanism seems related to the one proposed by Google (always reassuring when a big player and contributor to W3C standards shares your opinion) 3. Heuristics based blocking has been a proven and successful approach in the past (remember PrivacyPossum) for a privacy enhancing extension You can argue that Google is coming with a similar solution in the future, but a) It is Google, what level of fingerprinting does the largest advertising platform finds acceptable (similar to 'acceptable' ads, to whose standard are these acceptable)? b) JShelter offers it now, so why wait when it is already available now Edge's new automatic profile switching becomes real handy with this new JShelter heuristics block mode. In your (default for all websites) Strict mode profile you can install JShelter and for bookmarked websites you can switch to the more relaxed profile without JShelter. I agree with [USER=71262]@oldschool[/USER] the current implementation is a bit rough on the edges and the protection might not be worth the extra hassle. All in all it is just version 0.6 and to their credits they seem to have taken a more promising counter strategy [/QUOTE]
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