Posted on 01/16/2024 3:49:38 AM PST by Red Badger
My favorite is...
God @ heaven.org
Lol. Haven’t messed with Faux News in many years.
The only thing I watch anymore is original YouTube Red videos with no ads.
Agree. Any news site that wants my e-mail address gets binned. I don’t need to read any content badly enough that I’ll accept my email being filled with their spam.
“We’re approaching the point for a business model that’s just a bank of dummy accounts for registering for website viewing.”
Maybe, the huge issues are email verification to register and phone numbers for two factor authentication. And it still would have it’s issues because of human nature. First, most folks just absolutely refuse to give up local in machine email clients like popmail which gives them a direct connection to their device identification. Second would be the out of control greed... Could these 3rd parties even be trusted themselves not to sell the data for a few extra bucks? Look at the dilemma with “safe and private” browsers. They are full of crap and doing the same as everyone else, just slicker and quieter about it. many are streaming everything right to the powers that be in real time. And then what the websites will do is just shut off any registration from those particular 3rd party services, like they are starting to do with TOR browser access now.
The only way to cure this is to just say no and boycott the site in mass until they drop the policies and protocols. Same with hidden 3rd party API scripts. If everyone used NoScript that shows how many scripts are on a particular domain and who they are actually connected to it would scare the hell out of them. Here are the hidden scripts on FOX news, some of these like googletagmanager will add on 10-20 more hidden trackers when allowed. I have hit some websites that had 75 or more hidden trackers, fingerprinters, and realtime cross server connections.
foxnews.com
…amazon-adsystem.com
…atp.fox
…bing.com
…chartbeat.com
…criteo.net
…demdex.net
…doubleclick.net
…dt.fox
…foxbusiness.com
…foxweather.com
…google.com
…googletagmanager.com
…gstatic.com
…h-cdn.com
…ketchcdn.com
…knotch-cdn.com
…opecloud.com
…outbrain.com
…scorecardresearch.com
…segment.com
…taboola.com
…webcontentassessor.global.ssl.fastly.net
…yimg.com
Now what might be extremely useful would be a boycott list with the proof and reasons why. But will anyone actually do it? No... Their addictions are going to drag us all down with them instead.
Oh if they want to go to that length, and dig back through a VPN through an company ISP that’s 1,200 miles away, behind a firewall and a load balancer, and from a virtual machine, go ahead. I’m not that paranoid.
That helps a little with viewing, but that does not help keep them from identifying you through registration if you register there.
It is really getting bad. See #65 for the list of hidden scripts on FOX alone. But here is just one to give an example:
demdex.net
Audience Manager contains the following data-collection components:
Data Collection Servers (DCS) and Profile Cache Servers (PCS)
Data Integration Library (DIL)
Inbound Server-to-Server
Log Files
The DCS and PCS work together and separately provide services related to trait realization, audience segmentation, and data storage.
Data Collection Servers (DCS) Function
In Audience Manager, the DCS:
Receives and evaluates trait data from an event call. This includes information used for real-time segmentation and data passed in at scheduled intervals by server-to-server transfers.
Segments users based on their realized traits and the qualification rules you create with Segment Builder.
Creates and manages device IDs and authenticated profile IDs. This includes identifiers such as data provider IDs, user IDs, declared IDs, integration codes, etc.
Checks the PCS for additional traits a user has already realized prior to a real-time event call. This lets the DCS qualify users based on real-time data and historical data.
Writes log files and sends those to analytics systems for storage and processing.
DCS Manages Demand Through Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
The DCS is a geographically distributed and load-balanced system. This means Audience Manager can direct requests to and from a regional data center based on the geographic location of a site visitor. This strategy helps improve response times because a DCS response goes directly to a data center that contains information about that visitor. GSLB makes our system efficient because relevant data is cached in servers closest to the user.
I do NOT even have pay TV.
ONLY an antenna-—TRACK THAT,JERKS.
“I do NOT even have pay TV.
ONLY an antenna-—TRACK THAT,JERKS.”
Well done!!!
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