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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by kuschku on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:53AM (#15072363)
How would you do that, though? The browser has to open a socket to something to do this, after all. And that already is a violation.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:01AM (#15072458)
You'd just send a UDP packet with a spoofed source address and forget about it. There's no need to open any sort of 2-way connection for data that's only being transmitted in one direction (from browser to metrics server).
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by moosingin3space on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:05AM (#15072500)
You could transmit the telemetry through Tor.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by sp332 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:16AM (#15072603)
Tor is blocked in some places and viewed as very suspicious in others. If you're already in a place where you're trying not to draw attention to yourself, using Tor might not a good option.
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