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riddler wrote

Reply to This is how we lost control of our faces by Rambler

Many years ago I needed a face database for some AI work. Everything I could find for free was crap and it wasn't worth the price to pay for any of the better ones. For a few weeks I took a two hour lunch in the tourist area of town at the busiest fast food place. I parked right by the sidewalk and had a camcorder record HD from my car. I filtered out people who didn't look at the camera or who's face was partially covered. Lighting was consistent because it was always recorded at the same time of day. I probably had 5-10k faces of usable quality though I never tried training with the full data set. A few of the other grad students in my lab asked to use it when they found out about it. As far as I know my filtered version of that database is still floating around at the university.

In short, there is way more data than can even be identified floating around. That being said, the Facebook dataset is likely a treasure trove of interesting stuff. I can't imagine what deep learning on millions of pictures with their associated metadata could figure out. It's sad that data isn't being used for good.

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DcscZx5idox wrote (edited )

Reply to UnGoogle yourself; The complete list of alternatives to all Google products by ____

Search Engines - which one to choose? (onion service mirror) (eepsite mirror) - DigDeeper website

DigDeeper website tells that there search engines are weak of privacy or usability. The parsons another pages tells that Email providers and browsers instance a case of evil. However, alternatives are better than Google.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Chameleon - Spoof your browser profile. (Firefox plugin) by Rambler

By confused, I mean for example input boxes for forums disappearing, unless you switch to a user-agent they recognize and "support" or similar shenanigans.

Or sometimes getting mobile versions of sites when browsing on the desktop, because the site thinks you're coming from an Android or iPhone device.

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to Chameleon - Spoof your browser profile. (Firefox plugin) by Rambler

I'm using "Random User-Agent", which looks to be doing pretty much the same thing.

I went that route after discovering how you can be tracked based on your user-agent and that there's no way to make a meaningful change to it to prevent this. Thus I just change it every couple of minutes.

Some sites get confused by this, but overall it's a seamless experience. Not sure if it's actually preventing tracking, but it sure will defeat naive approaches.

By confused, I mean for example input boxes for forums disappearing, unless you switch to a user-agent they recognize and "support" or similar shenanigans.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Old news (2014) but might still be useful to some of us: Zero-day broker exploits vulnerability in I2P to de-anonymize Tails users by div1337

Yeah, that's definitely some real old news. Was an XSS exploit that was fixed real quick. It required JavaScript to be enabled, so for it to have worked someone would have had to of disabled NoScript in Tail's Firefox. Yet another reason to hate javascript.

No network is immune from exploit, as we've seen with Tor as well. As long as the devs actively fix things once they're made known, then it's all good.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by redandblack in What anonymity networks or privacy projects are you most excited about this year? by Rambler

I check ZeroTalk every few days or so...

My only issue with Zites is it's not as straight forward as a traditional website, meaning that even though you can have a dynamic site, you can't do it as easily as you would on the other networks.

I have a Zite that I need to update for another site of mine but I hate doing it because I have to take a dynamic, php driven site and just create a flatfile html version of it for ZeroNet and remove the dynamic components of it. =/

EDIT: Also, I don't like how I can't (easily) sync data between all my devices. Depending on where I am in my house or if I'm using my phone, that's different ZeroID's I'm using to interact with Zites, and that's how many times I have to download the same data again.

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