Aurornis, I appreciate your comment and want to step in to defend myself.
The LLM writing style is simply not true. I am a high-school English teacher and if my students caught me using AI to do my writing, they'd rip me to pieces.
I included the GH link as a source of proof. While I did read the browsergate piece and ended up publishing my article as a result of, I noticed this was happening months ago because I am a developer myself and saw this very strange behavior in the LinkedIn dev console. The nature of my work is that I spend many hours sometimes staring at the dev tools to debug my JS injection, CSP rewriting, and header modification that 404 does.
Is 404 a tool to stop this? Yes. But that's the point. The reason why this type of thing is allowed to happen, browser fingerprinting, is because the public is unaware of it, so trying to educate the public is a part of my outreach. There are almost no tools on the market that allow for browser fingerprinting protection. Mullvad and Tor are close options, but they're often met with their own levels of scrutiny just for using their tools. For example, my school blocks the Tor network from being accessed altogether. Some websites can block the Tor fingerprint.
The original source is more technical, of course, but I was also in communication with the Browsergate team and continue to be so this is not a one-off journalist just trying to peddle his project. This has been my life for the last 2 years and I don't appreciate you discounting the work that privacy advocates do by splitting hairs and mincing my words.
While it may not be things I would think to install, maybe they're not extensions someone with certain affiliations would think to install.
The LLM writing style is simply not true. I am a high-school English teacher and if my students caught me using AI to do my writing, they'd rip me to pieces.
I included the GH link as a source of proof. While I did read the browsergate piece and ended up publishing my article as a result of, I noticed this was happening months ago because I am a developer myself and saw this very strange behavior in the LinkedIn dev console. The nature of my work is that I spend many hours sometimes staring at the dev tools to debug my JS injection, CSP rewriting, and header modification that 404 does.
Is 404 a tool to stop this? Yes. But that's the point. The reason why this type of thing is allowed to happen, browser fingerprinting, is because the public is unaware of it, so trying to educate the public is a part of my outreach. There are almost no tools on the market that allow for browser fingerprinting protection. Mullvad and Tor are close options, but they're often met with their own levels of scrutiny just for using their tools. For example, my school blocks the Tor network from being accessed altogether. Some websites can block the Tor fingerprint.
The original source is more technical, of course, but I was also in communication with the Browsergate team and continue to be so this is not a one-off journalist just trying to peddle his project. This has been my life for the last 2 years and I don't appreciate you discounting the work that privacy advocates do by splitting hairs and mincing my words.
While it may not be things I would think to install, maybe they're not extensions someone with certain affiliations would think to install.