Mastodon Now Sends Referer Headers! Hurrah!
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That doesn’t sound good? They are privacy invasive.
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Unfortunatly its a cost we must accept since the justification makes it worth it.
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Unfortunatly its a cost we must accept since the justification makes it worth it.
That’s for the user to decide. The devs should not presume to make it on the users’ behalf.
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This is not a democracy
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Better ask whose benefit the system is being run for in that case. If I want a system run by Elon Musk then I already know where to find one.
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Is that not how this is already being implemented?
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It’s not entirely clear, but it appears to be up to the instance operator.
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Users can disable referers in their browser settings which overrides anything the instance operators can do.
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Only nerds do stuff like mess with their browser settings through about:config. The bulk of activity is from people who don’t mess with those settings and don’t stay aware of what’s going on. Those are the ones who the info gatherers want to observe, so that’s why the system should be opt-out in every case.
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There’s legitimate interest in knowing where people come from, though, and asking on your own page “how did you get here?” is hardly going to work. Personally I don’t think it’s much of an issue if some random commercial site sees that I got there via lemm.ee, it’s not giving away much at all, not even whether I have an account here and certainly not as much as tracking cookies. OTOH I also think it could be done better, wich tech similar to Mozilla’s aggregate (i.e. you’re just a number in an anonymous mass) ad clickthrough thing. Sites would see “yep we got a number of visitors from lemm.ee, and that number from lemmy.world” but wouldn’t know which of their site impressions corresponded to which origin.
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There’s legitimate interest in knowing where people come from, though, and asking on your own page “how did you get here?”
I fundamentally disagree, if shops started scanning people’s phones as they walked in to find where they had been last before they entered their shop people would be outraged, but somehow this has become accepted practice on the web.
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You think malls don’t have data on shopper movement? That a random kiosk owner can’t distinguish people who come from high school from the after-church crowd from the office workers from the tinfoil-wearing nerd always coming at 2am so that they can minimise social interaction?
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I know malls track peoples movements throught them and thats creepy as fuck too, though I dont think they tie IDs to individuals, just monitors where people move throughout them.
The rest of your post makes no sense, yes obviously peole can tell the diference between commuters wanting coffee and people on a night out getting drunk. But that is very different to having a label on everyone saying “came from my mistresses house” or “came from my week dealer” on each person, which is more akin to the level of detail given by referal links.
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“Knowing where people come from” does not imply ID’ing individual people, which is why I specifically mentioned that Mozilla technology. The legitimate interest is in aggregate data, and yes “lots of people come here from the brothel” is legitimate data. “This particular person did” is not.
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If people dont care enough to mess with their browser settings thenselves, then they can either a. join a privacy-focused Mastodon instance whose admin will keep the “no referer” policy, or b. live with the fact that choices are being made for them. People need to take actions for themselves, we cant treat everyone like babies.
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If people dont care enough to mess with their browser settings thenselves, then they can either a. join a privacy-focused Mastodon instance
“Joining a privacy focused instance” is exactly an opt-out approach so the answer is exactly the same is before, opt-out is the wrong chocie.
live with the fact that choices are being made for them. People need to take actions for themselves, we cant treat everyone like babies.
It’s not that choices are being made for them, it’s that they are adversarial choices. There’s a difference between “treating everyone like babies” and being on their side. Users who want sites run by predatory jerks already know where Elon’s site is. The fediverse’s main apppeal afaict is that it’s run by people who aren’t predatory jerks like Spez and Elon. That is, its operators can be trusted more. They should be looking out for the user. Otherwise there is no point to it.
This article looks good: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ :
The people running the majority of internet services have used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user, turning the customer into something between a lab rat and an unpaid intern, with the goal to juice as much value from the interaction as possible.
I’ve only started reading it though. Anyway, if the fedivese has anything to offer, it’s a respite from that. Stop trying to ruin it.
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