Questions tagged [user-tracking]
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Documentation on mobile-webview.gmail.com link masking?
Several google products (mainly Gmail) masks links using a fake-dns mobile-webview.gmail.com
That domain doesn't resolve anywhere, not even Google's own NS https://dnschecker.org/#A/mobile-webview....
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Is a tor packet readily identifiable?
if an exit node decides to trace back a Tor message to its source, will it be able to identify the same packet at the middle node, and from then identify the same packet at the entry node? assuming ...
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How does Facebook Pixel's new first-party cookie work?
Facebook recently announced that they will begin offering a first-party cookie option for the Facebook Pixel. Previously, they only used third-party cookies. From their documentation:
You can now use ...
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Preventing tracking pixels on Mozilla Thunderbird
Is there a way to prevent loading of tracking pixels on Mozilla Thunderbird ? I know there's a way to prevent loading images by default but I'd like to be able to load images without having to worry ...
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Does Google use an IP address to identify a user? [duplicate]
I used Google Search in Chrome incognito mode without logging in to my account, so no cookies were stored. However, somehow I instantly got a bunch of ads relevant to my search on Instagram. There ...
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Can malicious files be traced and removed from my phone
I had a files analysis done on my phone using Falcon Sandbox. An alarming amount of malicious files,marked as clean, were found,identified,and shown each capable abilities. Literally THE ONLY thing of ...
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How are advertisements through Facebook targeting me moments after searching on a different computer
When connected to my home network, I only use the Facebook app on my phone. I never log into Facebook via a browser on my laptop or other computer connected to my home network.
How is it possible that ...
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Can an employer track phone activity without a company SIM and without MDM?
Been looking for a phone upgrade and my dad has an iPhone (iPhone 13) given to him by his work, which he doesn’t use anymore. He offered to let me use it on the condition that the company can’t see ...
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Is there a coordinated Firefox user-agent for anonymous browsing?
One fingerprinting element is the browser's user-agent string. If we consider one browser, Firefox, we can see that it has different strings across different OSes, distros, forks (Tor, IceCat) and ...
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Separate third-party cookies for each website
Instead of blocking third-party cookies (which might be useful), why don't browsers allow them, but keep all cookies separate for each address-bar website?
For example, if a third-party website sets ...
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How does a website figure out the user's identity, even if I am using new IP and new browser cookie? [duplicate]
Background: I recently came across a child porn website and by US law I am obliged to report it. I've decided to collect evidence for a formal report; however, I don't want to reveal my identity due ...
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Cookie flow in a site that hosts embedded Youtube video
When there's a Youtube video embedded on a site that I visit while I am logged in Youtube beforehand,how does the embedded video know that it's me so I can add it to my Watch Later list?
I think the ...
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Do URL links copied from subscribed or web services like Apple News or YouTube embed tracking info?
Suppose I’m logged into YouTube or Amazon, and I use their web pages “share” button to copy a link for the video/whatever into my paste buffer. Does this copied URL embed encoded info that ...
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What information about me do stores get via my credit card?
Lets say I buy something at some (physical) store and pay using a credit card on one of these electronic terminals. What information do the owners of this store get about me (or my credit card) from ...
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How does phone tracking by police work?
For android phones in India
can police get a phone's IMEI number just by using that phone's number?
also suppose if a phone was moving around within few miles radius for few days and it was turned ...
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Forward messages without tracking pixels using thunderbird
Thunderbird does not load remote content by default, preventing pixel-tracking. However, if I forward an email, the links to remote content is still included in the forwarded email.
Is there an option ...
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Why certain sites don't send newsletters to "anonymous" mail addresses?
I use an "anonymous" mail address (cock.li provider in my case). I have found that mainstream news sites in particular don't send their newsletters to such an addresses. It looks like the domains ...
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How do you hide your browser advertising fingerprint?
How do you hide your browser finger print from advertising networks without disabling javascript?
Is there a browser extension that can help mask unique browser fingerprint? Browser finger print can ...
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How to realistically de-google an Android smartphone?
Smartphones have the options to selectively disable tracking in the settings menu. By visiting this menu, you can manually disable each application from having permission to access your private data ...
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Is there a way to bypass click-tracking links in emails?
Most newsletters that I receive use mass-mailing software that rewrites links to add tracking information. That is, instead of www.google.com, the email will point to something like links.somecompany....
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AWS IAM Access Issue
We previously had some AWS keys. The IAM interface show/showed no usage for it but the employee has been able to upload resources. Could anyone advise how to check if the interface is just erring or ...
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Does Safari's "Prevent cross-site tracking" option ACTUALLY prevent determined efforts at cross-site tracking? (By, e.g. Facebook)
In other words: Does Safari's "Prevent cross-site tracking" option effectively prevent cross-site tracking? (Is it for purpose?) I though it would work; are my expectations off?
Or, more ...
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How does Facebook track your browsing without third party cookies?
Facebook has served me an ad for a website I visited earlier in the day. I have third party cookies disabled and have not followed any links between the website and Facebook (links which could contain ...
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I have CSRF protection implemented server side, can I safely use `SameSite=None; Secure; HttpOnly`?
We have a web service where GET is always safe and all unsafe POST requests use single-use CSRF tokens. We have some cases where cross-origin domain would need to pass us POST request with data that ...
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Is it a security concern to have a user id in a cookie?
I want to track a user who has previously logged in so that I can associate traffic behavior with their user record on our system. Does storing the user's id as a single value in a cookie cause ...
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Is wiping cookies, blocking trackers and not logging in sufficient to prevent profiling?
I use Firefox as my browser. My privacy settings are strict. I block
All third-party cookies, and always delete all cookies when Firefox is closed.
Tracking content (in all windows);
Cryptominers; ...
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Will VPN on a mobile device hide location?
I have installed a VPN on my phone from a reputable VPN provider (paid VPN service, publicly rated as top 10 globally),
Can my phone location (longitude & latitude) still be traced by third-party ...
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Facebook retargeting pixel
Given a commercial website buy.com and a user with a Facebook account in facebook.com, the user has third-party cookies disabled in the browser.
If a user is logged in their Facebook account and ...
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Can my company track my web history when Opera VPN is active?
Today I brought my personal laptop to the office. My laptop connects to the personnel wi-fi automatically (not actual intranet). To mention, my work ID and password are needed to connect this network. ...
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How to trace virtual phone number?
Suppose I received a call from internet with some virtual number, I called the same number back after few days but it didn't exist at the time or it was routed to some other user.
Is there a way to ...
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I now receive advertisements from a site used by a guest on my wifi she was on OS X I'm running LInux did they track my IP address only?
I seems a little strange that the only thing in common between me and my guest is that she was on my wifi and thus using my wan ip address, yet I am receiving advertising from a site she used. I'm ...
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Preventing facebook from recognizing me [closed]
First of all I am not a "computer person" and I'm not going to spend a year learning more about computer stuff so I don't have to ask questions here. I've searched for similar questions, and ...
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How did a website make an accurate assumption of my identity in incognito mode? [duplicate]
What piece of information can websites retrieve that would allow for later identification without cookies?
Intro Out of interest I jumped into the rabbit hole of online marketing scams. The site I ...
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If an IP address is known, can all of its browsing activity be viewed by an outsider? [closed]
Internet service providers (ISP) can choose to have full information on the browsing activity of one of its subscribers.
Can an outsider, who is not the ISP, but who simply knows someone's IP address, ...
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Can CAPTCHA-solving patterns be used to track/identify a person?
Captchas are everywhere. Suppose you're a big company offering Captchas on many sites and you can easily track a user across the web simply by setting a cookie everytime some site loads your captcha ...
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Why is an IP address in a different city? [duplicate]
Someone lives in city A, but their IP address from home always displays as belonging to city B, 50 miles away in the same country. Both cities are the largest in the country, so this is not about one ...
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My school said they can track what websites we visit and games we play via online learning. is this true or just a way to scare us? [duplicate]
So my teacher caught someone playing a game in my online class and warned us that they have installed a new program so they can track "everything we do using our ip address" now im quite ...
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Before visiting Facebook two cookies got created(fr and sb)
I have cleared all the cookies on my Chrome browser, closed the browser and opened Chrome, navigated to chrome://settings/siteData
I see two new Facebook fr and sb cookies created right away, before ...
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Best way to learn every way I am tracked online? [closed]
Is there a course or resource for a person with basic networking skills to see all ways a website like FB or Google can track and identify users + how to spoof them and look natural? Not for malicious ...
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Does Opera Android track me?
I used to think that this browser is safe and does not track me. Then I did little experiment - i went to specific webpage on Opera and next day I found ads for it on Facebook app. How did it happen? ...
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Can schools track what I'm doing, even though I'm on my personal Gmail account?
My school can track my browsing when I'm at home and using the Google account they gave me, the laptop is my personal one. Is there a way that they could track what I do, even though I'm on my other ...
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Can a website track your browsing history on other websites?
I visited website B after visiting website A. Upon clicking the search bar on website B, a dropdown menu appeared containing the words I searched on website A. After clearing my browser history and ...
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Third party analytics/tracking javascript tags and PCI DSS
Although variants of this question have been asked before, they seem to be about general risk, and I'm interested in the PCI DSS connotations.
If an e-commerce site is looking for level 1 or level 2 ...
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Can Apple and Google bypass the decentralised COVID-19 tracing approach (DP-3T)?
Many thoughts have been spent on creating the decentralised, minimum-knowledge contact tracing approach DP-3T. This has been implemented in contact tracing apps of several countries, e. g. the German ...
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Which approach is technically more effective to hinder user tracking - fingerprint generalization or randomization?
Tor's approach to countering fingerprinting is to make as many users "appear the same" as possible. Let us call this "generalization". While Brave tries to randomize all fingerprints of each and every ...
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Find information about host/user by his public key?
Say, I was reviewing my log files and noticed that someone with certain public key tried to connect to my server and got access denied (because his public key is not in my authorized_keys file).
May ...
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Can a PDF embed a tracking image?
I know that PDFs can contain embedded images and Javascript.
Can a PDF contain something that tracks you? For instance, can it contain a remote image that, when the PDF is opened, will fetch that ...
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Privacy: why do I have to delete an account instead of simply no longer using it?
I try to avoid big internet companies (big tech) and try to find decentralized and/or open source alternatives.
I use a password manager with unique usernames and generated, complex passwords.
A lot ...
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Is it possible to spoof the user agent of any application?
I love using .torrent files instead of file hosting sites like Mediafire and google drive because of their lack of support for larger files.
However, even with a VPN your User Agent is still ...
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Best practices for notebook anti-theft. Computer tracking
I am buying a new Thinkpad with an in-built GPS/Cellular modem. I am thinking what are the best practices for making the notebook secure in case of theft. I am planning to do full disk encryption and ...
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