Yeah and you need to be asleep to believe it

It’s giving Oblivion NPC lmao

I feel like Musk was a symptom of Americans really wanting a genius billionaire to be a real thing as it reinforces this American dream everyone’s dreaming about.

Reading the CPAC transcript clearly shows that he’s currently below average intelligence if anything.

Is it allowed to say that I honestly can’t wait to see Elon gone from this planet? What a piece of shit human being ugh

Woosh

Fuck this ruzi propaganda mentality - oh oh everyone’s bad, it’s just how it is, so we can be bad and invade Ukraine, it’s just how it is.

Stop spreading this shit. Most countries and places around the world are not even close to shithole status of ruzzia

I feel like better tooling is a safer bet. I know people hate on AI here but tooling that can detect flaws in C memory management would be basically as good as Rust itself.

Stock market is basically meme gambling these days no different from crypto. Its not a reliable indicator of anything.

We need to constaly audit algorithmic timelines. There cannot be “trade secrets” here.

It’s not like code auditing is some magic were not capable of - its a multi billion industry perfectly capable of managing this task and we have all of the existing tools and frameworks for it.

Yes, and even before js fingerprint happens the connection is fingerprinted through HTTP and TLS protocol fingerprints as each system is slightly different like supporting different encryption ciphers, different http engine and how requests are performed etc.

So even before you see the page itself the server has a pretty good understanding of your client which determines whether you see this captcha box at all. That’s why on public wifi and rare operating systems (like linux) and web browsers you almost always get these captcha verifications.

The more complex the web becomes the easier it is to gather this data and currently the web is very complex with no sight of stopping.

It’s super effective but there are very few real use cases for it outside of security and ad tracking. For example you can’t replace cookies with it because while good fingerprint is unique it can still be fragile (browser update etc.) which would cause data loss and require reauth.

Usually fingerprint plays a supporting role for example when you do those “click here” captchas that’s actually just giving the browser time to fingerprint you and evaluate your trust to decide whether to give you a full captcha or let you through. So fingerprint is always there in tbe background these days tho mostly for security and ad tracking.

As for court cases and things like GDPR - the officials are still sleeping on this and obviously nobody wants to talk about it because it’s super complex and really effective and effects soo many systems that are not ad tech.

Yeah unfortunately disabling JS is not viable option tho onion websites are perfectly functional without JS and it just shows how unnecessarily JS had been expanded without regard for safety but theres no stopping the web.

I do it as a security measure for private institutions and everyone involved has signed contracts. It’s not on the public web.

The first point is flawed and even TOR doesn’t execute javascript because it’s impossible to catch everything when you give the server full code running capabilities.

The second point is more plausible but there’s an incredible amount of work to do to fix this. Like, needing to rework browser engines from ground up and removing all of the legacy cruft. Brave is not capable of this and never will be no matter what they advertise because it doesn’t have it’s own engine.

That being said, these tools will get you quite far against commercial fingerprint products especially ones used for Ads but that will also ruin your browser experience as now you’re just solving captchas everywhere 🫠

No. Anything that executes Javascript will be fingerprinted.

That being said it depends who are you fighting. For common commercial tools like Cloudflare fingerprinter it might work to some extent but if you want to safeguard against more sophisticated fingerprinting then TOR and no JS is the only way to combat this.

The issue is that browsers are so incredibly complex that it’s impossible to patch everything and you’ll just end up getting infinite captchas and break your browsing experience.

This has been the case for years. I develop fingerprinting services so AMA but it’s basically a long lost battle and browser are beyond the point of saving without a major resolution taking place.

The only way to resist effective fingerprint is to disable Javascript in its entirity and use a shared connection pool like wireguard VPN or TOR. Period. Nothing else works.

In your OP you said that “it’s unclear how <complex> algorithms could be manipulated” and I’ve pointed out that we’re literally doing that right now with one of the most complex algorithms ever made without having any clue of the source code basically.

If the owner of the algorithm wants to manipulate it then it’s absolute piece of cake of a job even if it’s a million times more complex than Googles ranking or the current tiktoks algo. The complexity of the algorithm in no way prevents manipulation if you own the source.

People generally enjoy that stage of a relationship the most so you can do your own math here.

Lol as if these weren’t in full control by Chinese oligarchs. They literally were Chinese casinos before covid.

I hope Myanmar is getting something out of it for being China’s bitch here.

Nah man I run a couple of seo’d technical websites that are getting thousands of views every day mostly through SEO. Its a bit more simple today cause Google is just giving up as all you need domain authority, keywords, backlinks and good content to do well but without those you will never get front page, period.

There are also incredible amount of SEO utilities that drive content creation like keyword difficulty and trend following so it is very much the same algorithm manipulation but through prediction and reverse engineering.

I’d love for SEO to not be real and just make stuff but reality is SEO and even technical SEO (like semantic html) is required for any form of success in publishing content.