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Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses • The Register | Those who do not adopt Tor are doomed to reinvent it

2023-10-26 20:53:27+00:00

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/23/google_ip_proxy/

Matt Green has a more corporate-political take (THREAD) on the matter, seeing it (probably correctly) as an flagrant attempt to capture IP traffic in order to replace data from cookies which fed the targeted advertising ecosystem:

Really impressed at the speed with which the advertising networks have deployed IP-address protecting proxies. I guess when ad dollars are on the line, industry can move mountains. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) October 24, 2023 https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1716777555724743157

This is our life now: people screaming about ever more invasive things which replace those they previously screamed about, but are far worse.
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