[HN Gopher] Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020) ___________________________________________________________________ Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020) Author : marginalia_nu Score : 59 points Date : 2022-03-24 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (smitop.com) (TXT) w3m dump (smitop.com) | nerdbaggy wrote: | His other article is really interesting in what data they collect | https://smitop.com/post/whiteops-data/ | [deleted] | TechBro8615 wrote: | Has anyone done a MITM analysis of 3rd party clients like | Apollo? I assume that using them affords a significant level of | protection from any client-based Reddit tracking measures, but | that's only assuming Apollo doesn't do something like add a | unique User-Agent to each user's request (and of course, Reddit | can still collect the server-side IP/networking fingerprints). | nimbius wrote: | oof. running IE11 exploits (feels illegal here...), elevating | to vbscript, testing the boundaries of the JIT, checking for | screenshotting, observing for brave browser and communicating | with two shady blank page sites... | | not since the port scanning from ebay have i seen something | this reprehensible | kyleee wrote: | not a surprise, a lot of the fingerprinting code attempts to use | every feature possible, that's why you'll see random messages in | the console sometimes saying "site tried to access $feature' | where feature is location, canvas, etc. etc. | can16358p wrote: | Is it the reason that all the pages on "modern" reddit are | extremely bloated, laggy, and resource-draining even on fast | systems? | lizardactivist wrote: | That site has turned into a Pentagon-friendly echo-chamber, and | opinions that even slightly "disturb the reverb" are viciously | attacked and down-voted to invisibility. | | Being able to quickly register new "throw-away" accounts is | useful for those with the "right" opinion, and because of the | fingerprinting and tracking, useless to those with the "wrong" | opinion. | moron4hire wrote: | What are some examples of wrong opinions? | Terry_Roll wrote: | Click on the sort by Best to Controversial. Comments can be | quite funny, there is a lot of psychological manipulation on | reddit, just like other social media platforms like twitter | and others. | naoqj wrote: | I know how this works: someone will show an example and | someone else will say that decent human beings don't think | like that and that they deserve to be silenced. | qzx_pierri wrote: | The people downvoting you are proving your point. I agree | though. Reddit is a massive echo chamber. It's almost worse | than Twitter. Almost. | oversocialized wrote: | oh_sigh wrote: | Just a few weeks ago, I had multiple of my 15 year accounts | permanently suspended from reddit, for no apparent reason*, with | no recourse. A few days later I tried to create an account, and | it was immediately permanently suspended as well. | | Then, I cleared all of my cookies/autofill/local storage data, | connected to my phone's hotspot (which I had never done before), | and made another account, and it still got banned shortly | thereafter. I have to guess this is why they are fingerprinting. | | * They said it was for ban evasion, but I wasn't banned anywhere | as far as I knew. The only thing I can guess is that their | systems grouped my accounts with someone else's accounts(maybe we | connected via the same coffee shop hotspot at one point, or | something), they got banned, and then it looked like they were | evading the ban with my accounts. | akomtu wrote: | Same IP + same User-Agent already tells with high confidence | that it's the same user. And that's without JS. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-24 23:00 UTC)