Browser fingerprinting is where JavaScript or other means are used to scrape uniquely identifying information from the browser metadata and functions such as how it draws a canvas object. In it's latest release Apple will defeat browser fingerprinting by making all Mac users look alike to advertisers and websites that use fingerprinting to track users. Apple can afford to do this as it doesn't have skin in the online advertising game.
[This is likely only going to be for the Safari browser. - Ed]
(Score: 5, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:29PM (7 children)
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:07PM (1 child)
Even better, install uBlock Origin. I can't believe how many things it blocks! Some sites, over 100 blocks. Crazy.
Not a single block on Soylent! Nice.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 15 2018, @01:50PM
No longer being updated for Palemoon, unfortunately. Doesn't mean it won't work fine for a while but known bugs will absolutely pile up over time.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @10:10AM (4 children)
127.0.0.1? How about using 0.0.0.0?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @02:59PM
why?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 15 2018, @07:41PM (2 children)
I'm not clear as to how that relates to the RFCs.
If you run a personal webserver as I do, to map a bunch of domains to 127.0.0.1 will result in your local webserver's log being stuffed chock full o' 404s. That's somewhat annoying when I'm trying to debug a local server's config.
All my boxen have local versions of each of my domains so I can make Server Side Includes work locally:
127.0.0.1 soggy.brak . # One one machine
127.0.0.1 soggy.frylock # On another machine
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Thursday August 16 2018, @02:00PM (1 child)
Then configure your webserver's name-based virtual host mechanism to put the real domains' log entries in one file and other domains' log entries in another file. Instructions for this depend on whether you are using Apache, NGINX, or something else.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 16 2018, @02:38PM
Yup, that's webserver with vhosts admin 101.
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