Comment by fc417fc802
10 months ago
Can they? It seems highly unlikely to me that most web site operators are colluding with my VPN provider to unmask me.
(Yes fingerprinting is a huge issue but the implications of that get fairly complicated.)
10 months ago
Can they? It seems highly unlikely to me that most web site operators are colluding with my VPN provider to unmask me.
(Yes fingerprinting is a huge issue but the implications of that get fairly complicated.)
Years ago Google released anonymized browsing data to researchers. The researchers were able to determine who did the searches. I imagine a state actor can already determine almost everyone’s online activity.
There's definitely some critical information missing there. I don't think you could individually identify me if all you had to go on was the text and timestamp of the searches I made within the past 24 hours. At least yesterday I didn't even look up any local businesses on maps.
State actor and porn site operator are two very different things. Pointing to the former in this context reads like a non sequitur to me.
I believe most websites keep track of viewing history and ip addresses of where that history comes from. I believe if the government wanted to determine what your internet history is they could do so with a great deal of accuracy. As such I think the complaint that requiring proof of age would be a privacy nightmare is not relevant.
We already live in an age of relatively little privacy.
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