🛡️ When you are keen on web privacy, i.e. anonymity, what do you use? Is there actually a difference for you between @torproject, @i2p, @Freenet and #GNUnet and is their use important to you? Multiple selection possible.
Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.
Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).
W3C is seeking a full-time staff member to lead our Privacy standardization efforts.
The position is for remote work from anywhere in the world.
Requirements include: extensive knowledge of privacy technologies and methodologies, including authentication, identity management, cryptography and familiarity with core web technologies, such as HTML, HTTP, Web APIs, and scripting #hiring#webprivacy See more at: https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-privacy-lead/
Most web pages use third-party stuff somehow; web fonts, images, videos, JavaScript. It can be useful (and eye-opening for you, the page developer) to see what these things actually do. Do you know about Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only? #stuartwriting 1/6
Fingerprinting is the act of trying to covertly identify a user or distinguish one user from another by reading stuff about their setup. Web sites and web browsers can do this, and your job as a developer is to protect your users from it. #stuartwriting 1/5
Since the beginning, web browsers have sent a description of themselves with every page: the User-Agent. For nearly as long web devs have been begged to not use the UA to change stuff per browser, and for all that time devs did it anyway #stuartwriting 1/4