Mastodawn

Ah, the utopian dream of the web, where giants like Meta, Google, and Apple hold hands to bring us "privacy" through an #advertising #cartel 🤡. #Mozilla tags along like a forgotten sidekick, ensuring we can't even choose our own fate 🔒. No consent needed, because who wants #autonomy when you can have targeted ads? 🙃
https://blog.zgp.org/the-advertising-cartel-coming-to-your-web-browser/ #webprivacy #techgiants #targetedads #HackerNews #ngated

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela May 12

This website is great! This website is awful… It’s awful what it can easily do, great that they are teaching about web browser fingerprinting.

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

#BrowserFingerPrinting #WebPrivacy

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived

World Wide Web Consortium Feb 19

📆 24 February 2026

Next week Simone Onofri, W3C Security Lead will talk about the importance of security, privacy, and human rights by design in innovative technologies during a "Human-Centered Threat Modeling for Digital Identity Systems: A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Workshop " at the Geneva Business School - Barcelona Campus 🇪🇸

#WebSecurity #WebPrivacy #HumanRights
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/human-centered-threat-modeling-for-digital-identity-systems-a-lego-serious-play-workshop/

dan slimmon Jan 21

OUT TODAY: Cookies: How Ad Platforms Steal Your Mind (Part 2)! Dive into the mind-boggling infrastructure that Google et al have built to do reprehensible things with your data, like sell it to ICE https://techblows.net/14 #privacy #browsers #webprivacy #advertising #podcast

ProxySocks5 Dec 14

Static IP vs Rotating IP – quick breakdown 👇

Static IP = same address every time. Perfect for stable logins, streaming, gaming, and long-term projects.

Rotating IP = changes on schedule or each request. Great for research, testing, and large-scale data tasks.

Want both in one place? Explore simple and fast options.

🔍https://proxysocks5.com/

#CyberSecurity #WebPrivacy #Proxies #ProxySocks5 #Proxysocks5👽

N-gated Hacker News Aug 24, 2025

🚀 Oh great, another piece trying to decode the secret sauce of Brave's 'Agentic Browser Security'—a fancy way to say "we might protect you from the Big Bad Web." 🤔 Don't worry, you can keep your tinfoil hat on while browsing with your NFT collection and AI sidekick, Leo. 🦄🔍
https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/ #BraveBrowser #AgenticSecurity #WebPrivacy #TinfoilHat #NFTCollection #HackerNews #ngated

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

Brave

nickbalancom May 23, 2025

Day 2/10: Stop AI Scanners Before They Map Your Site
AI bots don’t need to break in — they just watch you first.

• Hide test pages + old folders
• Make error pages boring
• Use headers that limit what’s visible

Less exposure = fewer attacks.
Follow @nickbalancom for simple, solid web security.

#Cybersecurity #AIThreats #WebPrivacy #DevSecOps #MinimalSurface #nickbalancom

🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉May 14, 2025

🚀 Brave just open-sourced Cookiecrumbler! 🍪🤖 This smart tool uses AI to detect & block cookie consent banners without breaking websites. Say goodbye to annoying pop-ups and hello to smoother, privacy-first browsing! 🌐🔒 Check out the project & join the community on GitHub! 👩‍💻👨‍💻 #Privacy #OpenSource #BraveBrowser #Cookiecrumbler #AdTech #AI #WebPrivacy #oldnewz

👉 https://cyberinsider.com/brave-open-sources-cookiecrumbler-to-automate-cookie-notice-blocking/

There should be a fork for Firefox-based browsers of this, in my opinion. And then into LibreWolf it goes.