Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by novok on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:46AM
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How is private relay different from a vpn? A lot of fingerprinting scripts also can track you despite vpn.
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by top_sigrid on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:09AM
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Private Relay uses ingress and egress relays. The ingress proxy does know your IP but not which sites you are visiting and what you are doing. The egress proxy is only connected to the ingress, sees what you visit but does not know who you are. Both proxies are run by different parties.
With a VPN you would have to trust one provider, who sees all of your traffic.
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by mkmk3 on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:03AM
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Then is Private Relay equivalent to a two layer tor setup?
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by Engineering-MD on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:34PM
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From my understanding yes, but with the caveat of being organised by a single entity (apple)
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by irrational on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:41PM
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I wonder why Safari is required? I’d be interested in paying for this if it worked with Firefox.
Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by GekkePrutser on Sunday February 20, 2022 @11:42PM
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Yeah that would be a useful service that Mozilla could offer and I'd actually pay for.
I don't like their VPN as it's too basic in terms of privacy protection and it's much more versatile to just sign up with Mullvad myself because then I can use it on other stuff than just the browser.
Given this tracking is all server side, third party cookies across sites aren’t possible using this mechanism, and private relay cycles through your IP addresses frequently and uses common IPs across multiple users.
Regarding your other point, unless Google execs want to be thrown in jail / sued, they can’t use things like first party cookies for their benefit since that is against their terms of service.