And what about the person the thieves sells it to?

It’s not worthless but it’s on only an indication, an example.

Isn’t the score change similar to the one you have when toggling Apple safebrowsing? (whatever that is)

A probable explanation is that your VPN client is somehow changing some of your browser settings. The VPN client, not the VPN itself.

Just check the detailed results to see what’s changed between the two. Whatever it is it could be changed manually, it’s does not require a VPN to change. But you probably don’t want to change it because your score with a VPN is worse than without.

But this has nothing to do with a VPN being the best or the worse.

That’s side effects, the difference is irrelevant anyway.

I insist because I think it’s important to understand this, both for you and for people reading these comments. The whole point of fingerprinting is to be able to track users without relying on cookies or IP. Changing IP does not protect against fingerprinting. I don’t want people to be mislead by your comment and think they are going to avoid tracking by just taking a better VPN.

You can read more here:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting

“Browser fingerprinting” is a method of tracking web browsers by the configuration and settings information they make visible to websites, rather than traditional tracking methods such as IP addresses and unique cookies.

And you can check the source code to see there is no mention of IP address:

https://github.com/EFForg/cover-your-tracks/blob/master/fingerprint/fingerprint_helper.py

It might have a side effect but it’s still unrelated and useless for the purpose at hand.

Tails uses the Tor Browser which does a lot to minimize fingerprinting, for example by letterboxing so the screen size (one of the most unique information in my case) is rounded as to not be as unique.

https://tb-manual.torproject.org/anti-fingerprinting/

A VPN is unrelated, it changes your IP but the IP is not used to fingerprint.

But then they can know a lot more since they don’t even need to drop a cookie to track you. But that’s a different threat model.

Yeah, that’s my issue, NixOS is so stable I never had to reinstall.

It has been blocked and will be blocked again soon.

How do you think that would work? Like the site with the affiliate link should drop a third party cookie for gumroad? That’s a pretty big requirement.

But did you try in this case? Because it doesn’t seems to have a sanitizer handling gumroad, in fact the sanitizer list is quite limited.

All the solution you proposed have big tradeoffs. Most would require to run some code on the site where the URL is, which is often not an option. And they would not work if the link is shared between people. For a lot of cases the solution they used seems to be the best one.

The URL tracking filter list is nice but it doesn’t seems to include anything related to gumroad domain or parameters.

https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/17.txt

You need to add it yourself.

I don’t understand. Cookies and request method are two different things. You can set cookies on GET.

This is about removing tracking arguments that identify users, this is not the case here.

The example in your link even show it’s keeping campaign tracking arguments. So I’m pretty sure it would keep the one we are talking about here.

Use removeparam.

The URL tracking protection filter list uses this and is a nice list to enable.

An uBlock Origin custom filtrer should do.

Did you actually look at it? video13.ts is just a split of the video. If you go the manual way as you suggest you need to find the video.m3u8 playlist file, and download all splits listed in the playlist (video01.ts to videoXX.ts, depending on the video length and split length) and then merge them all together to get the full video.

yt-dlp list gamedev.tv as supported and has an issue about adding zenva support with a comment suggesting it might not be hard.

You’ll need to pass the auth cookie you got after login to yt-dlp.

It isn’t completely right either. Browsers, extensions and, only in some cases, VPNs can save you from being tracked by some. You are describing first party tracking but the point is mostly to prevent third party tracking. An adblocker and an email relay goes a long way.

I agree with the rest though. Regulation is the only way.