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  • They can fingerprint you and trace a profile about your personality, this can be used for a lot of things.

    Imagine if they know exactly what are your tastes, you don’t see ads, ok, you were able to block every unwanted visual interference. But imagine a new platform appears, you access it and by your IP, e-mail, phone number or even nickname they know it’s you before you registering there.

    Reddit sell all your data for this new platform, the new platform can show you some sweet content that matches exactly you taste, you’ll think “this is awesome, everything I like is here”, it’ll make you access it more often, contribute to it, later they add paywalls, mandatory ads, then you know… You’ve being manipulated already. You can’t live without it and will be force to accept their terms.



  • It seems you can’t block this request, I tested using mitm proxy, you can stop requests being made, so when you do it, the Reddit home page stop loading, if I resume but discard the request (same thing as blocking), the page doesn’t load anymore.

    Back when I noticed this, I asked on uBO origin subreddit, and the uBO Team told me there’s nothing they can do, they tried and all attempts broke the site, that’s why I said this tracker is unblockable.

    I suggested them to intercept the request, change the parameters with fake ones, then proceed, so it’s sending a wrong info in the tracker, they said they tried it already but didn’t work.


  • My point is, when you open both browsers without any extension you can see the HTTP requests in the Devtools > Network page, so it isn’t related to uBO, for some reason I can’t see this specific request on Firefox, but I can see in Chromium based.

    I know that this request is happening in Firefox because I tested with a MITM Proxy, so I can see all my network traffic, I noticed the request is being made but Firefox DevTools doesn’t show it for some reason.

    I tested without uBO installed of course, but anyway, requests blocked by uBO are shown in red with “Blocked by uBO” in the “Transferred” column.



  • I’m still using Windows on dual-boot with Arch because of games, that’s the only reason. I’ve Windows 10 LTSC IoT, which is the most debloated version available, plus I ran a debloater script, so the OS is basically raw now, no Microsoft account linked.

    Unfortunately Windows still gets more performance, at least on my experience, I’ve a Laptop 16GB RAM, Hybrid GPU (GeForce 1650 4VRAM + AMD).

    I’m still not prepared to give up from this little extra performance just to switch to Linux, it really makes a difference, and I pass the whole day dealing with Linux so at the end of the day I just want to boot into something that just works without major tweaks.

    I know it’s not Linux fault, but most games are made to run better on Windows. If and when W10 become unusable, I’ll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it’s my last Windows.











  • That’s right, it’s exactly what I think, you are one way or another helping a game to be known. The same strategy people talked about why Microsoft don’t shut every Office cracker, they want normal people to use it and get used to it, so companies will use it too, eventually, and they can audit some IT companies, charge a hell amount of money if they use pirated software.

    I agree with everything, but I’ll still pirate AAA games, just for the experience. I classify publishers/developers companies like this:

    • Companies it doesn’t even worth playing to avoid indirect marketing: Ubisoft, EA
    • Companies that at least it worth pirating: Activistion, Rockstar, etc…

    Let’s be honest, the games are good, probably made by some people who love what they were doing, but then it was put behind a shitty business model, because developers are just trying to make a living while executives trying to harvest all the money.

    I think as the time goes, developers will start making their choices better, leave predatory companies, start or join indie companies, and I, at the same time, will migrate to a more indie focused gaming.