• FishFace@piefed.social
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    27 days ago

    It’s far easier to do this all client side. It’s it spotting to detect when a resource load fails and log to the console?

    Spying implies that someone, or at least some process, is watching me and my behaviour. But there is more to it, because that just describes a site working.

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      27 days ago

      but client side requires the client to cooperate. and the client is regularly not under your control.

      I can’t make sense of your second sentence.

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        27 days ago

        The client needs to “cooperate” to do anything, including showing whatever it is says “please don’t block our ads :'(”

        I mean that merely observing behaviour is not spying, because that covers any interaction. So what makes this spying?

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        27 days ago

        Unless you’re blocking Javascript, they have control to see what elements are loaded.