What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/
@jwildeboer@bert_hubert That dates from 2022, the repository (https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller) seems dead, the methodology seems flawed (it beeps on connections to Google IPs, not exclusively tracking IPs, which can include people hosting websites on Google servers) and, as the project seems dead, I don't know if anyone checked it it really works as intended.
@jwildeboer@bert_hubert I maintain OSS, that's not this simple. I tried to read the code, but it's like trying to read and review a text in Portuguese when you only know Spanish, you understand many words, but it's hard to find issues.
@jwildeboer@bert_hubert That's why I said the project seems dead, if someone else could work at it (like adding support to other IP lists like Facebook's) those ideas would already be implemented at this time. Like, it has been two years, right? :HoloGrumble:
@jwildeboer@bert_hubert Sorry if you saw that as a complaint, I just felt it strange. One thing I don't like is when people mistake wanting more privacy with an anti-Google group. A video like that should at least raise some concerns to anyone who ever coded anything network-related: IMHO it looks... sounds... badly implemented either on the detection side, or on the Google side, or the website or something in between. The frequency is just too high for network requests.
To all the commenters explaining how to make this go away: That's not the point. At all. The majority out there has to deal with this stuff and they don't even know. That's what this experiment is about.
IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) the real question is: Why do browsers share all of this? (And it's not just Chrome. These are Web Standards, so all browsers share this) Why isn't there a simple option to say "Read-Only, send no data back except for which page I want to see"? The web is not we want it to be, IMHO.
@jwildeboer You could try to address this on the software side but trying to fix social problems with technical solutions is a red herring.
For example you'd just get even more first-party trackers instead, or everything being done behind the user's back. What this shows is an easily visible part of the iceberg.
@jwildeboer@bert_hubert 2 weeks ago i started using a dashcam app on my smartphone. It called out so frequently whilst being blocked by duckduckgo's app tracking protection that my smartphone drained battery and shut down overheated. Lesson learned: app tracking protectiin works
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