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    Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals' anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?

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      Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals' anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?

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      1. Don't use shit that monitors in such a way.
      2. Where you can't avoid it, do your work in a separate, trusted program and then copy paste it in.
      3. Where you can't paste, I'm sure you could whip up an ahk script to 'type' for you from the clipboard.
      4. If you're at this step, they've already won.
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        Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals' anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?

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        Are there any measures available to protect against this?

        • Disable scripts in your web browser, except for important sites that depend on javascript.
        • If any of those important sites are not trustworthy, write text in a local editor and copy/paste it into the site where needed. Do not type directly into text fields on the site.
        • Avoid other sites that require scripts.
        • Ask and/or pressure site owners to make them work without scripts where possible.

        Keep in mind that however you modify your text entry habits on untrusted sites, if scripts are allowed, your modified behavior can also be fingerprinted.

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          1. Don't use shit that monitors in such a way.
          2. Where you can't avoid it, do your work in a separate, trusted program and then copy paste it in.
          3. Where you can't paste, I'm sure you could whip up an ahk script to 'type' for you from the clipboard.
          4. If you're at this step, they've already won.
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          1. if they work reliably these tracking techniques will become pervasive across the internet.

          2. this is one of those things where the more you anonymise your data the more identifiable it is compared to everyone else’s non anonymous data.

          3. see above

          4. yeah…

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            1. if they work reliably these tracking techniques will become pervasive across the internet.

            2. this is one of those things where the more you anonymise your data the more identifiable it is compared to everyone else’s non anonymous data.

            3. see above

            4. yeah…

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            The majority of people will sacrifice security for convenience, I guess we all know that's a given.

            For 2 at least if enough users behave 'adversely' in the same way, they become less distinguishable from one another within that subset.

            Interesting to see how such an arms race pans out.

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              The majority of people will sacrifice security for convenience, I guess we all know that's a given.

              For 2 at least if enough users behave 'adversely' in the same way, they become less distinguishable from one another within that subset.

              Interesting to see how such an arms race pans out.

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              Yeah but that is still pretty identifiable, the same way fingerprinting works pretty well for finding a user with a specific screen resolution, os, fonts, etc that already makes a specifically small subset of users that you can start to find patterns and identify individuals. The tiny subset of users who might be tempted to go about anonymising inputs is already thinning the field huuugely

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                Yeah but that is still pretty identifiable, the same way fingerprinting works pretty well for finding a user with a specific screen resolution, os, fonts, etc that already makes a specifically small subset of users that you can start to find patterns and identify individuals. The tiny subset of users who might be tempted to go about anonymising inputs is already thinning the field huuugely

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                I've begrudgingly accepted that the greater war in this regard is long since lost, but I'm happy to win the small battles today. Unfettered internet access. Ad free media. VPNs, adblockers etc etc

                It helps that I'm a fairly dull person to begin with. I'll probably be dust by the time it gets too bad to tolerate.

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                  Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals' anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?

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                  At this rate, I'm gonna have to go Amish.

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                    Yeah but that is still pretty identifiable, the same way fingerprinting works pretty well for finding a user with a specific screen resolution, os, fonts, etc that already makes a specifically small subset of users that you can start to find patterns and identify individuals. The tiny subset of users who might be tempted to go about anonymising inputs is already thinning the field huuugely

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                    I did this for years back when i was being all considerate and junk. Privacy was not a motivator.

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