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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

f they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you

The only scenario in which this could happen would leave both strategies equally vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No, the idea is that you can't be traced via fingerprinting.

Both strategies accomplish that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Plenty of people are looking at the data, reaching the conclusion that Biden realistically can't beat Trump, and calling for an alternate strategy.

They'd say your aim was a fucking stupid one, because they see running Biden as a sure path to Trump, versus an admittedly unlikely but still possible hail-mary of running a different candidate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You and 1000 friends go to a party all dressed in the same Mr Blobby costume. When one of you gets absolutely shitfaced at the open bar and vomits in the middle of the dance floor, they get kicked out and banned from next week's rager. Next week rolls around, and 1001 Mr Blobbys rock up on on the dance floor, because management has no idea which Mr Blobby cost them their deposit last week.

You and 1000 friends all go to a party dressed as a unique DeviantArt Sonic OC. One of you fails to hold their liquor. They get kicked out. You all attend the party next week all wearing a completely different costume of a completely different DeviantArt Sonic OC, since the number of them is functionally infinite. Management can't kick the vomiteer out because as far as they're concerned, Jimmy the Hedgehog didn't show up this week, because whoever was Jimmy the Hedgehog is now Steve the Echidna.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If it's unique every time it means they can't create a consistent fingerprint for you.

A UUID assigned to each user is unique, but that's not useful for tracking unless you can ensure each user keeps the same number across visits.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you think the only reason people would be against Biden running at this point is because they're secret Republican shills, I genuinely think you may need to spend more time offline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

If EFF always says your browser has a unique fingerprint then that means the anti-fingerprinting is working, no?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think you might care about this a touch too much

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

VS Code is written with performance in mind. Compared with other electron apps, it's very performant.

Compared with even a sloppily written native app though, it's not great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Emperor's New Clothes levels of straight face-edness required

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Git was built specifically to avoid the necessity to have one authoritative server.

[–] [email protected] 204 points 2 months ago

A distributed pseudonymous ledger for use by a centralised authority that will hold sensitive, personal information.

I think the paper was right.

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