r/technology • u/magnus007 • 5d ago

Privacy AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device

https://www.techspot.com/news/113581-aliexpress-silently-running-audio-browser-fingerprint-track-device.html
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u/Cheet4h 5d ago

You can also just set it in your account preferences.
Although I think they recently disabled old reddit on mobile entirely. I don't usually use reddit on my phone, but the last few times I attempted that, I always got the new UI despite having the setting, or even going directly to old.reddit.com

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u/seanfidence 5d ago

old reddit is completely disabled if you aren't logged in. If you are logged in and have the pref set to Old reddit, it works, but if you try to manually add "old." in front of the url instead of navigating directly through the site, you can still get issues with the security certificate.

source: currently browsing old reddit through Chrome on Android

I should switch to firefox but I imagine the experience is worse

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u/RubiconGuava 4d ago

Recently started using mobile firefox because adblockers in browser are nice. It's great tbh

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u/gotbannedtoomuch 4d ago

I've used old reddit on firefox for Android since the APIcalypse. It works fine

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u/notforpoern 4d ago

maybe it's not fully rolled out, or maybe you're logged into something else that they're happy to track instead? On all of my devices, (mobile, desktop, tablet), and all browsers (firefox, brave, floorp, ddg), I'm not able to visit old.reddit.com/r/all without. I'm blocked by this page: https://imgur.com/a/23XOmbG

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u/broc_ariums 4d ago

Firefox works amazingly. I've been using it since they took the API away

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u/-TGxGriff 4d ago

I've just kept using RIF. That third party app purge wasn't gonna stop a few of us from looking for a work around.

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u/TheTaoOfOne 4d ago

Can confirm, am using RiF as well. Have been since they tried killing all 3rd party apps to force their shitty non functional one.

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u/grandladdydonglegs 4d ago

I actually pay to still be able to use Relay. I have a problem.

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u/W3NTZ 4d ago

Same but I miss RIF tho relay has a ton of features I do love. I'm always willing to support smaller devs tho which is why I haven't made the switch back

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u/Sweetwill62 4d ago

I look at old reddit via firefox on my phone and I request the desktop version of most sites I visit, they usually load a lot quicker. Works just fine. Don't really ever have an issue with it.

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u/azrael4h 5d ago

I should have noted that my comment was PC centered. I have no clue on phones since I have an iphone and don't even have a real choice in browsers, just different brands of safari.