Dear USA,

Donald Trump is exactly who you are.

Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.

Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

“This is not who we are.”

Bullshit.

This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.

You want to change?

Start by accepting that.

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
• Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

Me fascina que haya tanto revuelo porque no se que empresas chinas estén extrayendo datos de entrenamiento a no sé qué empresas estadounidenses para sus IA generativas. Me fascina porque hay mucha gente hablando de lo poco éticas que son esas prácticas, en perfiles de LinkedIn que alaban y adoran a los loros estocásticos, cuando ninguno de ellos se atrevió a señalar el elefante de su habitación: que los modelos estadounidenses a los que rinden culto también se construyeron mediante el robo masivo de datos para entrenamiento.

Y si bien veo una diferencia sustancial, esta no serviría para eximir a los yanquis en comparación con los chinos sino para asumir que el caso chino es un mal menor que el usamericano.

Porque ahora son empresas robando a empresas. Poderosos robando a poderosos. Peleas de gigantes que ocurre en su propio plano de existencia y, en realidad, por mi como si se aniquilan mutuamente.

Pero el caso estadounidense era un gigante robando al pueblo. Era, y es, un robo flagrante al mundo.

Y que seres humanos tengan como lícito el robo a personas mientras ven como un drama que dos empresas se peleen por unos datos que no pertenecen a ninguna, y generen encima un discurso de buenos contra malos me resulta totalmente distópico.

Y me fascina.

De verdad que no quiero seguir viviendo en esta puta distopía anymore.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-patents-ai-that-takes-over-a-dead-persons-account-to-keep-posting-and-chatting-3320326/