Hi!
It doesn’t make sense at all. Blocking ads & trackers is not a good approach to achieve privacy. It’s quite weak actually for many reasons…
First of all, because enumeration badness doesn’t work; it’s not possible to create a list of every possible “malicious domain”. And even if it was possible, websites could develop their own first party tracking and then share the information to third parties like Google or Facebook.
Second of all, because apps and websites can detect what domains are blocked, thus they -or malicious actors- will able to uniquely identify users more easily.
Third of all, because extensions add more attack surface since they use privileged script in order to work.
I can totally see how Madaidan can cause fear, uncertainty, and doubt. When I read, for example, his criticisms of Linux, I felt not only that, but also disappointment. You for sure have good reasons to dislike Madaidan and either GraphenOS or the Lemmy GrapheneOS community. But I don’t know them. Could you explain a bit why Madidan and GrapheneOS (or it’s Lemmy community) are problematic? Your answer would help me see what you see :)
Is important to understand that madaidan isn’t spreading any FUD or fear or doubts whatsoever.
His criticism toward Linux is justified and well written. People who actually work with Linux everyday can confirm that.
Brad Spengler, the developer of the most extensive kernel hardening patchset in existence and inventor of many widely used exploit mitigations along with pipacs (including ASLR, W^X, CFI, etc.):
https://grsecurity.net/10_years_of_linux_security.pdf
Now, that means that you should not to use Linux? Absolutely not. It’s not the point of the article. Madaidan itself uses Linux and he said many times how hate Wundows. The same goes for Firefox, he uses it as a daily driver. Basically, he uses the software he criticized, because those are simply security and technical analysys.
There is a huge difference between:
“I acknowledge that what madaidan has wrote is true, nonetheless I still keep to prefer Linux as my daily for x reasons”
“madaidan is spreading fud about Linux and other software because is a shill etc.”
And please, don’t listen to anonymousjoker. He is known as a troll in basically every privacy community.
Requesting is not begging, hence the purpose of c/community_requests
You seem like an angry person replying out of hate. I’m sorry for whatever it is that happened to you to be this way. It doesn’t give you a right to attack, harass and bully people.
Edit: your behavior is very much like an abuser in real life that gets off on verbally insulting people for your own sick and twisted kicks.
It makes sense for it to have a built in ad-blocker. Any idea why they don’t do that?
Hi! It doesn’t make sense at all. Blocking ads & trackers is not a good approach to achieve privacy. It’s quite weak actually for many reasons…
First of all, because enumeration badness doesn’t work; it’s not possible to create a list of every possible “malicious domain”. And even if it was possible, websites could develop their own first party tracking and then share the information to third parties like Google or Facebook.
Second of all, because apps and websites can detect what domains are blocked, thus they -or malicious actors- will able to uniquely identify users more easily.
Third of all, because extensions add more attack surface since they use privileged script in order to work.
That’s why Tor doesn’t use any ad-blocker.
For more information about enumeration badness and browser tracking you can see here and here
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I can totally see how Madaidan can cause fear, uncertainty, and doubt. When I read, for example, his criticisms of Linux, I felt not only that, but also disappointment. You for sure have good reasons to dislike Madaidan and either GraphenOS or the Lemmy GrapheneOS community. But I don’t know them. Could you explain a bit why Madidan and GrapheneOS (or it’s Lemmy community) are problematic? Your answer would help me see what you see :)
Is important to understand that madaidan isn’t spreading any FUD or fear or doubts whatsoever.
His criticism toward Linux is justified and well written. People who actually work with Linux everyday can confirm that.
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/interview_notes.txt
https://nitter.net/grsecurity/status/1249850031357788162
https://nitter.net/spendergrsec/status/1308734202330963970
https://nitter.net/spendergrsec/status/1308762791734632454
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7_mwg5f2cE
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/bddq5u/os_security_ios_vs_grapheneos_vs_stock_android/ekxifpa/
https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Syzbot-and-the-Tale-of-Thousand-Kernel-Bugs-Dmitry-Vyukov-Google.pdf
https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects/blob/main/presentations/The_state_of_the_Linux_kernel_security.pdf
https://nitter.net/rootkovska/status/1136220742662664193
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2011/04/23/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html
https://jon.oberheide.org/files/syscan12-exploitinglinux.pdf
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/05/5
Now, that means that you should not to use Linux? Absolutely not. It’s not the point of the article. Madaidan itself uses Linux and he said many times how hate Wundows. The same goes for Firefox, he uses it as a daily driver. Basically, he uses the software he criticized, because those are simply security and technical analysys.
There is a huge difference between:
“I acknowledge that what madaidan has wrote is true, nonetheless I still keep to prefer Linux as my daily for x reasons”
“madaidan is spreading fud about Linux and other software because is a shill etc.”
And please, don’t listen to anonymousjoker. He is known as a troll in basically every privacy community.
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The only FUD around here is you @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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Requesting is not begging, hence the purpose of c/community_requests
You seem like an angry person replying out of hate. I’m sorry for whatever it is that happened to you to be this way. It doesn’t give you a right to attack, harass and bully people.
Edit: your behavior is very much like an abuser in real life that gets off on verbally insulting people for your own sick and twisted kicks.
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