An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 26, 2024
- April 25, 2024
- April 24, 2024
- April 23, 2024
- April 22, 2024
- April 21, 2024
- April 20, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- Mashable
- Simplebits
- Web Designer Wall
- Team Treehouse
- Just Creative
- Joshua Blankenship
- Smashing Magazine
- Web Design Ledger
- Android Headlines
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
June 26, 2019 08:02 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XJSecL2TMe4/firefox-will-give-you-a-fake-browsing-history-to-fool-advertisers
Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History To Fool Advertisers
Security through obscurity is out, security through tomfoolery is in. From a report: That's the basic philosophy sold by Track THIS, "a new kind of incognito" browsing project, which opens up 100 tabs crafted to fit a specific character -- a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer. The idea is that your browsing history will be depersonalized and poisoned, so advertisers won't know how to target ads to you. It was developed as a collaboration between mschf (pronounced "mischief") internet studios and Mozilla's Firefox as a way of promoting Firefox Quantum, the newest Firefox browser. [...] Just a warning -- if you use Track THIS it may take several minutes for all 100 tabs to load. (I used Chrome as my browser.) But when as it gradually loads, it's like taking a first-person journey through someone else's consciousness.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XJSecL2TMe4/firefox-will-give-you-a-fake-browsing-history-to-fool-advertisers
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot