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		specialist on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking I keep thinking someone will reboot Opera's mini web browser for this purpose. (Their intermediate server renders the target website to an image.) I also anticipate someone will do smart diffing on target websites to better auto nuke ads, trackers, etc.

Hexcles on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

Isn't that worse, a big brother in the middle watching everything and even doing TLS termination? Unless it's running on a Tor-like distributed system?

specialist on Dec 13, 2019 | [–]

Much belated response, sorry.

I just don't know. I've stopped using VPNs for this very reason.

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