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by ehecatl 2925 days ago
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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jacques_chester 2925 days ago
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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gm-conspiracy 2924 days ago
Take a look at this library:

https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2

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