Alexander Hanffthatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social
Oct 7, 2026, 10:15 AMThis is CNN doing it (unlawfully, without consent)...
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funnymonkeyfunnymonkey@freeradical.zoneOct 7, 2026, 1:29 PM@thatprivacyguy I suspect everything coming in the javascript delivered in the 'gpt` url path will be interesting, and pretty universal.
Frequency Fault Officialfrequencyfault@mastodon.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:15 PM@thatprivacyguy CNN is owned by Trump goon Larry Ellison and is run by his nepo baby David. They scoff at the law. They own literally all media in the USA now.
Jeffrey Yasskinjyasskin@hachyderm.ioOct 7, 2026, 2:41 PM@thatprivacyguy I'm not going to assert that nothing bad is going on, but in (1), checking what JavaScript names exist gets them the same information as the version number in the User-Agent string, so it's more useful for detecting misleading clients than for fingerprinting, and in (2), generally sites need to know if they're doing really slow operations a lot, even if this can also be used to destructively read whether someone has ever visited a site that used this feature.