On 8/14/14 4:32 PM, William Denton wrote:
> On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote:
>
> Another approach is Tor, both spreading the word about it and how to use
> it properly, and also about running relays and exit nodes on the Tor
> network. I run a relay myself, and encourage others to do so.
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote:
> I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
> advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
> privacy
ries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua
Nathan Gomez
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I agree. What was prompted as a discussion of protecting one's patrons has
turned into a disc
On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote:
I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?
Indeed no, that's how this thread went. But it's re
llman
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Hellman
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I must say I'm surprised that mos
I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?
> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> Bill (&others), are you running Priva
On 14 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm
concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try
anyway.
I am---Adblock Plus, that is. Haven't noticed any problems (or ads!) or missing
content. They seem t
Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm
concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to
try anyway.
Thanks,
kc
On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
*ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while,
If you click on the opt-out button, we reserve the right to sell your data,
and where permitted, your body and/or soul, to entities targeting luddites,
losers and resistors of the inevitable.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
> http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
>
> Is t
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
Is this satire?
On 08/13/2014 05:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
*ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer
around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago -
they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If
anyone
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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
> Hellman
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:37 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
>
> I blogged this.
>
> ht
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Hellman
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:37 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
I blogged this.
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014
I blogged this.
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/08/libraries-are-giving-away-user-privacy.html
Do libraries even realize they're doing this?
Eric
On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote:
> Interesting thread,
>
> AddThis is certainly everywhere (5 percent of the top 100,000
> It isn't "virtually impossible to block"; mapping addthis.com on the
> client computer to 127.0.0.1 (using /etc/hosts on Linux and Unix
> machines) does a nice job of it. But anyone who uses it really is
> betraying the user's trust.
>
>
I was looking around for a complete set of addthis domains
On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
*ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around.
Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've
obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of a
good cookie program or plugin, I'
Interesting thread,
AddThis is certainly everywhere (5 percent of the top 100,000
websites--ProPublica), often in contrast to an organization's stated
privacy policies.
Here's three examples of use within OCLC and their products:
http://oclc.org/research/people/follow.html
ContentDM: http://www.c
On 8/13/14 1:22 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:
> It seems that Code4Lib hasn't discussed this., though the news is 2 weeks
> old. It seems that there are libraries using social share tools from
> AddThis", a company that has been using a technology called "Canvas
> Fingerprinting" to track users.
>
>
I think this would bother me more if I thought that there were a
significant number of users who either do not use cookies at all, or who
had some kind of effective cookie manager. I suspect that the actual
number is very close to zero, in the .n range at best.*
I have a problem with libraries
It seems that Code4Lib hasn't discussed this., though the news is 2 weeks old.
It seems that there are libraries using social share tools from AddThis", a
company that has been using a technology called "Canvas Fingerprinting" to
track users.
In other words, it looks like libraries are giving
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