Bluetooth is such a mess. You know what didn't have this problem? Cables.
aembleton 2 hours ago|
Also, non-multipoint Bluetooth.
ankushdograuk 10 hours ago||
This is the reason I use adguard everywhere
emctech 10 hours ago|
I use ublock origin and by default it wasn't blocking, i had to make a custom filter to block the scripts in order for it to prevent the audio takeover. Maybe adguard does a better job? Someone else suggested just wholesale disabling of JS but it is the nuclear option.
nottorp 12 hours ago||
Besides the privacy implications, they are also wasting our fucking batteries on this crap...
lapcat 11 hours ago||
Cloudflare challenges also use Web Audio, by the way.
emctech 8 hours ago|
Does it hold an audio stream open constantly or just briefly during the challenge? On AE it never stops
lapcat 8 hours ago||
Just briefly during the challenge.
theyeenzbeanz 6 hours ago||
Can we just limit web APIs to cookies and the likes as before? I don’t like how JavaScript has access to so many devices on the host. It’s a security and privacy nightmare.
kinnth 8 hours ago||
This sounds like a GDPR issue no? Couldn't they be taken to the EU!
kenniskrag 8 hours ago||
Yes. In this case probably not fineeprinting is not allowed because not strictly necessary (cookie law) and therefore needs consent from user.
edelbitter 6 hours ago||
Going batshit with browser APIs is also a formidable GDPR defense.
e.g. try browsing the privacy-related forms for Google (https://myaccount.google.com) on Firefox :D
(entire browser freezes up every other second for me, because of some extremely important work Google needs to run on my CPU to let me scroll down on a static site containing roughly 30 words)
echelon_musk 12 hours ago||
OP please submit the filter to an upstream uBlock filter list.
You can also submit to the EasyPrivacy list or one of the AdGuard lists.
fnwbr 8 hours ago|||
chimed in... thank you for the great documentation!
emctech 6 hours ago||
I am glad people like the write up and it is fostering a conversation! It is such a happenstance that i looked into this.
docmars 7 hours ago||
Sounds like we're gonna need browsers to pop an audio playback permission, as annoying as that seems. Abusive sites just can't help themselves.
downrightmike 7 hours ago||
There is no legit reason to be doing this.
shevy-java 8 hours ago|
We need to find a solution to browsers sniffing on people. This here refers to AliExpress, but which browsers are typically spying on people like that in the first place? That's the real primary problem.