Any AWS metric that doesnt have the network costs is useless. If anyone wants a dedicated unmetered server up to 20gbps i'd recommend datapacket.com.
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It should not be okay, and must be protested. I hope that the government and Anti-trust lawsuits force apple to unbundle the Appstore. Apple has made enough money to recoup their investment starting from the first iPhone, and made incredible profit over that too.
Now laws should be made to ban appstores bundled with an operating system, and hardware.
Everyone should be allowed to install the app store they want with a flick of a button.
This is how big of a problem it is. I would recommend any founder to delay startups and let anti trust probes and hopefully splits happen. Otherwise what happened to Snap, will happen to you.
Also we know many exploits to bypass noscript if we wanted to (yes I know there are bounties for this, but we were paid much higher then any public bounty for this stuff)
Ours was more advanced then this. As far as I've read the paper cited on the source above, they are like 30% of ours tech POC back in 2015.
Now we're waaay past this easy stuff to fake stuff. This now considered to be basic.
Look into distill networks, but their public product is very far behind what we did. Not sure if they have better tech to be used in future.
However the author of the paper could not get it to work on low end devices, whereas we could. And we discovered this around 2015.
Also this is nothing but getting dimension of screen and other browser attributes which are useless now. The current state of the art cannot be mitigated unless you put a 95% penalty on performance on the CSS engine AFAIK.
Google, Facebook advertiser have more specific budgets, especially Facebook which has a large number of small advertisers.
Large adnetworks however get large advertisers with advertising budgets in tens of millions on average.
There is a larger pressure on Google and Facebook to be competitive then say smaller ad networks.
Also the techniques that I mention of are not in use in wild after the POC on millions of devices few months ago. They're a backup plan. Also not every adtech company has them. Maybe 2 or 3 at the most are at the cutting edge of tracking.
Google knows this very well. You really think Google couldn't counter fraud? Its a fake and manufactured outrage. No one wants to give away their "secret sauce" just yet.
Also right now many adtech companies are going bankrupt. Many larger one are waiting for smaller ones to be gone after which the landscape changes.
All the public computer researchers and browser vendors are years behind the techniques to fingerprint devices (probably 5+).
Canvas, WebGl etc are techniques of the past. There are much more advanced ones, than can identify devices with completely uniquely (on both desktop and mobile)
Also we know when users fake their fingerprints, and the algorithm respects the decision even though we know who the user is despite faking with all state of the art methods.
Latest methods dont even use JavaScript. Just CSS is enough to identify every device uniquely but you'd need JS to send the data back.
Every public researcher I've seen are given honeypot techniques that they consider state of the art even thought the industry is way ahead of the researchers.
Read the reply too. ;)