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  • I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

    If you’ve got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It’s a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

    Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

    EDIT: I’m not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.




  • You’re describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it’s just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you’re not burning down enough points or why you haven’t met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.

    Maybe you’ve avoided it but I’ve seen it first hand.






  • I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

    Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

    Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I’ve closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.





  • Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It’s hard to tell.

    It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.