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Comment by as1mov

21 hours ago

Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.

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retired  21 hours ago

I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net.

What bots are using Apple Private Relay?

  • Xkeeper  21 hours ago

    This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are?

    I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else: https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png

    The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.

    • Telaneo  21 hours ago

      uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.

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    • retired  20 hours ago

      On the “ Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now” page I get tracked by Google, YouTube and DoubleClick according to the report by Safari.

      I also have 924 kilobyte of data stored on my device after visiting tcrf.net without any consent.