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A technical and privacy review of Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare has launched a new free web analytics/visitor-counting service. It promises to put end-user privacy first. The service has plenty of room to improve.
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I created my own web analytics system from scratch
I’ve removed Google Analytics from my website and built my own data-collection tool to focus on the metrics that matter to me and doesn’t impact visitors’ privacy.
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Safari’s Beacon API problems
You must implement the Beacon API the way WebKit deems to be “the right way” to make it work on iOS, Safari, and WebKit browsers.
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My thoughts on Firefox blocking tracking/ad cookies by default
A small Google AdSense publishers’ perspective on Firefox’s new cookie-blocking policy change. It can be good for the open web ecosystem in the long run.
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New browser extension lets you opt-out of Google AMP
A new browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that gives people the choice to opt-out of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in favor of the open web.
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How to detect Brave despite it not having a unique User-Agent
Brave browser pretends to be Google Chrome to avoid being blocked. You can, however, still detect it by analyzing its uniqueness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.