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Privacyverklaring | Mazda

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03

Het gebruik van Bitly is netjes vermeld: [Wayback/Archive] Privacyverklaring | Mazda

Bitly: URL-verkortingsdienst en linkbeheerplatform; dienstverlener: Bitly, Inc, 139 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA; website: https://bitly.com; privacybeleid: https://bitly.com/pages/privacy.

Dat is belangrijk, want URL-shorteners zijn een risico op bijvoorbeeld:

  • De daadwerkelijke doel-URL is niet op voorhand zichtbaar of duidelijk
  • De doel-URL kan achteraf worden gewijzigd, dus waar je nu op uitkomt is niet noodzakelijkerwijs waar je in de toekomst op uitkomt
  • Er kan user-tracking plaatsvinden op het niveau van de URL-shortener
  • Ze worden veel gebruikt om malware te verpreiden (juist ook omdat de doel-URL makkelijk aanpasbaar is)
  • In veel omgevingen worden URL-shorteners om bovenstaande redenen geblokkeerd

--jeroen

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Is it possible to deter AI scraping by providing overly large robots.txt?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/18

An idea: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ruurd @mcc … Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?…” – Mastodon

@ruurd @mcc probably not, although Google Search limits them to 500 KiB.

developers.google.com/search/d

“Google currently enforces a robots.txt file size limit of 500 kibibytes (KiB). Content which is after the maximum file size is ignored. You can reduce the size of the robots.txt file by consolidating rules that would result in an oversized robots.txt file. For example, place excluded material in a separate directory.”

Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?

It was in response to these earlier toots (with quotes of some very interesting links on when cookies are (dis)allowed –  TL;DR: it depends on local regulations):

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Without prior warning, Twitter shares your data with grok AI, even for EU Twitter users

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27

Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenly  – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all

[Wayback/Archive] GTarqIOWEAAs4jy.png (768×290)

I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, LLM, Power User, Privacy, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

Template van SchizoDuckie  tegen data harkers

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/21

[Wayback/Archive] 🦆 SchizoDuckie 🦆 on X: “Ben jij die dataharkers ook zo zat? Hier heb je een mooie template om een eigen klacht in te dienen: https://t.co/MEAKd6osBF Over 4 weken gaan we dan verder met stage 2. Meer hulp is welkom! AP gaat pas optreden als er meerdere klachten komen!

[Wayback] Klacht buienalarm/Infoplaza – Google Docs

--jeroen

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How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

Since about a week, Discord started showing ads. I am pretty sure the default setting is against GDPR regulations.

Lifehacker indicated how to disable them. I added numbered steps for readability:

How to turn off Discord ads

Discord doesn’t make it super clear, but there is a way to disable these in-game rewards advertisements, as well as the tracking that goes along with them. To start,

  1. open Discord,
  2. then head to Settings > Privacy & Safety.
  3. Here, disable the toggle next to In-game rewards (aka Quests).

[Wayback/Archive] How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker

Screenshots (sorry for the dark mode):

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Yet another reason not to use SMS based 2FA: those phone numbers get leaked or sold as Daniel Cuthbert mentioned on Twitter: “@LinkedIn did indeed sell my 2FA phone number”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/06

Many recommend against using SMS for 2FA because of security reasons (SIM swapping, sniffing, etc), but there is another privacy+security reason: these 2FA phone numbers get leaked or sold as [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Cuthbert (@dcuthbert) found out the hard way last year:

–jeroen

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Figured out why on fresh Chrome installs, iframe with embedded Google Calendar won’t work and show `(blocked:other)` in the Network Tab of Chrome Developer Tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/09

Wow, what a long title!

What happened is that I have a few dashboards for people that include various embedded Google Calendar widgets in <iframe>s.

These won’t show on fresh installs of Google Chrome that have the particular user signed on in the Chrome Settings so that settings will be synchronised, right?

Right?!

Wrong!!

Not all Chrome settings will be synchronised by Chrome. Things like [Wayback/Archive] “On startup” (with the pages shown after Chrome startup) and wich installed extensions are synchronised including the visibility of their icons. But the settings of the extensions themselves will not.

This means that odd things happen, for instance extensions like [Wayback/Archive] Privacy Badger and [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin being installed, but both reverting to their default settings.

That in turn leads to hard to see problems, in this case the embedded Google Calendar <iframe>s failing.

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C#/.NET: for personally identifiable information, use Gaev.Blog.Examples/PiiString.cs at 3.1.1 · gaevoy/Gaev.Blog.Examples

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/12

A while ago [Wayback/Archive] Vladimir Gaevoy wrote a great blog post which I bumped into through his tweet [Wayback/Archive] “Blogged: .NET type for personally identifiable information (PII). Working with PII with the help of .NET String is painful. Let’s see the benefits of PiiString as explicit .NET type instead of .NET String  #pii #dotnet #gdpr #security “

The tweet does not fully do justice to his blog post [Wayback/Archive] .NET type for personally identifiable information (PII), as the post not only discusses the background (GDPR and other requirements, for instance the [Wayback/Archive] GDPR compliance checklist – GDPR.eu) and the class, but also with examples how to use it for:

  • conversion to/from user interface plain text
  • hashing to pseudonymized/anonymized form
  • encryption for more secure storage

In addition, more examples cover JSON, Entity Framework, [Wayback/Archive] NLog, and [Wayback/Archive] Serilog — simple .NET logging with fully-structured events.

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Ookla speedtest CLI for Windows has some undocumented arguments to accept license and GDPR

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/11

I had speedtest-cli running on MacOS and various Linux machines, but not yet on Windows (see for instance my post Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”).

[Wayback/Archive] Install and Test Internet Speed with Speedtest CLI Command Line – NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM reminded me there is a Speedtest CLI for Windows download at at [Wayback/Archive] Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line, but I am a an automation/scripting/devops person, so luckily there are also [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Speedtest by Ookla (don’t get [Wayback/Archive] Ookla.Speedtest download, as that is the GUI version).

Both the Chocolatey and winget packages are named the same, so that is quite confusing. This is how I have set them apart:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Batch-Files, Chocolatey, DevOps, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, Internet, ISP, KPN, Notepad++, Power User, Privacy, Scripting, SpeedTest, Windows, xs4all | 2 Comments »

How to disable Chrome’s new targeted ad tracking: visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/06

Go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy and disable all to make it look like this:

[Wayback/Archive] 266577344-cd2613d0-f97d-46e1-bfbb-9d8c432c40c8.png (656×183)

Via these tweets: Read the rest of this entry »

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