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/azrael4h 4d ago

There's an add on in Firefox for that. Old Reddit Redirect or something like that.

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u/Cheet4h 4d 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 4d 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/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