Feed readers can be uniquely fingerprinted
Your list of news feed (‘RSS’) subscriptions is unique and it can be used to create a trackable and persistent device fingerprint.
Privacy
New AdSense APIs for gathering user-consent
A look at the new Google AdSense APIs for obtaining GDPR and ePrivacy consent with custom-built data-sharing consent-screens.
What breaks if you use First-Party Isolation in Firefox
Firefox’s FPI system keeps websites from tracking your movements across websites. This gives excellent privacy protections but at a cost of web compatibility.
How to limit tracking in software downloads
Here is what you can do to protect yourself against websites injecting tracking-code into the software installers you download.
Software downloads now contain unique tracking identifiers
Popular software vendors inject unique tracking identifiers when you download their installers to track you all the from the web and onto the desktop.
Vilfo review: Not designed for security or privacy – Part 3:4
I found several privacy and security issues with the Vilfo VPN router during my week-long review.
On using Coinhive CAPTCHA instead of reCAPTCHA by Google
Google reCAPTCHA has a near-monopoly on CAPTCHAs. Coinhive CAPTCHA wants people to spend a few seconds mining crypto-currencies instead of solving puzzles.
EU GDPR and personal data in web server logs
Web servers store access and error logs by default. These can be a liability as they may contain personal data as per the General Data Protection Regulation.
Reduce the max cookie lifetime from decades to days in Firefox
Improve your privacy by reducing how long Firefox retains cookies. Who needs to store them for decades? Firefox can cap it at a custom interval.
Mozilla celebrates 1M new non-Gecko users
Firefox Focus browser, built on WebKit, for Android has been downloaded 1 million times in a month. Whatever happen to Mozilla’s commitment to GeckoView?
Embed a JavaScript CDN in your web browser with Decentraleyes
Browser extension mirrors popular JavaScript library content delivery networks locally to improve load-performance and your privacy.
Private bug trackers leak data on security and other known issues
Many bug tracking software leak information about your organization’s security problems through HTTP referrer headers.