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Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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I wonder if, at any point, anyone stopped to ask themselves, "did I really go to school just so I can ply my knowledge and expertise to find even more ways to fucking track people who expressly don't want to be tracked so we can use the data for ad revenue (if not for other, even worse things)"?
I studied data mining (now machine learning) and statistics.
I’ve spent my career explicitly NOT plying my knowledge this way. I don’t know how people do it.
I’d say my deep knowledge on how to track people has made me pretty averse to a lot of online things.
You know you can build marketing attribution systems and advertising metrics without violating user privacy.
But advertisers really like the idea of invading privacy and they pay out the nose for it.
Good on you. Few are willing to take the overgrown path. And, funny how people who work with the subject matter often avoid it- the cybersecurity guy who doesn't own a computer, the guy who services food processing equipment who refuses to buy premade food, the guy who works/ed for the DoD who doesn't own a phone, etc.
Would you mind sharing some of the online things you're averse to, besides all that is implied by being on the Fediverse? I'm still new to this stuff.
I work IT adjacent in physical security systems (cameras, access control, intrusion systems etc.). Everyone looks confused when they ask what I have at home or what they should install and I tell them fuck all of this surveillance state/must know every time someone thinks about my house bullshit. I push back on a lot of corporate garbage as well and I'm lucky enough to work off a company that listens and balances security with privacy when I steer us that way.
I think this is pretty common in tech fields.
I've got the same thing. I had someone ask me what I do for backups and they thought I was joking when I told them I have a good printer. They couldn't get their head around the idea that I don't even have a home network to attach a NAS to, and thought I was just being condescending. I had a similar conversation when asked how to secure an Alexa.