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Re:Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web by ehecatl on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:48AM (#17310100)
On the totem pole of tech nous, I am very close to the bottom. So can someone explain to me "remote browsing" is not a thing? Login to your VPS (or whatever), start and encrypted X session, and browse away.

That is very unusual traffic, of course, and others connecting from my inet-facing IP probably make it even more so: Steam after school, missus hitting the foreign news sites in the AM, the traffic peaks and troughs at certain times of day... we're fucked.

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Re:Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web by jacques_chester on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:06AM (#17310171)
They can identify you a number of ways without your knowledge or consent. One is timezone allocation. Another effective way is browser fingerprinting. IP addresses. Browsing patterns. Device screen size.

Privacy on the web is an information theoretic arms race with tremendously deeply asymmetric stockpiles of information.

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Re:Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web by gm-conspiracy on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:09AM (#17311360)
Take a look at this library:

https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2

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