I was thinking of spinning up just a vanity instance for me, if I do that I might try to get that UI working. But also I am lazy and have a WIP list a mile long so who knows if this will actually become reality.

my main is on db0 and I want them to set it up so bad 😭😭

its just the old UI, if you remove old. and go straight to lemmy.world the instance is fine.

I was a Brownie when I was a kid (80s), I thought we were going to go like camping and stuff like the boy scouts, but all we did was needlepoint inside all summer so I never went back.

To me retro describes the 80s only. But I was also a kid in the 80s, so that might be what makes it retro, things I remember from when I was a kid. So NES and Atari are retro for me. Like things from the 90s when I was a teen do not seem retro to me, Super NES and Sega are not retro game systems to me.

Also in the same vein, “vintage” to me (born 1979) is things from the 60’s and 70’s. To my mom how almost had a heart attack when teenage me called her 70’s sweater jacket “vintage”. She (born 1948) feels “vintage” is from the 40s and 50s. But my best friends daughter (born 2009) and thinks things I bought in the 2000’s are vintage and loves raiding my closet.

anytime friend

The real research: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

Here is the boiled down points from this

1. you open a page that has an ad served from Discovery-Tech ad inventory

2. the ad has a standard script in to that calls back to the home server and passes your advertising ID (cookie ID on desktop or mobile ID on mobile) plus your IP

3. there is a third party that has compiled a list of ad ID + IP that effectively de-anonymizes users. This is used to target specific people. The info passed by the ad is compared against the target list. If there is no match to the target nothing further happens.

4. if a match is found it returns javascript that runs on the page. It finger prints the device then it checks for an exploit.

5. if the exploit it is looking for is found the exploit corrupts memory in the rendering engine, achieves native code execution, escapes the sandbox, and installs the spyware.

And, yes, ad blocker software would stop this. If the ad cannot render it cannot call back to the mothership. The only exception to this would be if the ad was served first party, like the website you were visiting was also hosting the ad. Or if you are on a device using a browser that is part of a app that does not have ad blocking, like the built in browser for instagram.

Here is what they did not say

We don’t know which browser, OS, or application vulnerability was used at Al Jazeera. It could be a unknown zero day one or a one that is known but only works on certain older versions of software.

Adding in a standard YSK how to delete your advertising ID from your mobile device.

The irony of linking to an article about forced identification that requires you to login and pay to read it without trackers or a giant banner that covers the article.

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