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MarblePillar | 4 years ago

It appears that your null hypothesis embraces the benevolence of tech companies. Is this a reasonable assumption? How, after all, do they make their money?

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crazygringo|4 years ago

It does no such thing.

You could take literally any line of code and make an unfounded claim. "It calculates a hash, and fingerprints use hashes!" "It stores a variable, and analytics uses variables!"

It's on the burden of the person making an accusation of bad behavior to actually demonstrate that. Otherwise it's no different from me declaring you're an evil hacker because you comment on Hacker News, guilty until proven innocent.

MarblePillar|4 years ago

Missing the point.

The null hypothesis determines the "unfounded claim". For example, judicially, the null hypothesis is, "You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." Similarly, commercially, the null hypothesis is, "If it's profitable and mostly legal, corporations will compete to do it better."

Fingerprinting is both profitable and legal. It is so profitable and so legal that today's most dominant corporations, entities representing trillions of dollars of value, are founded on its premise.

The "unfounded claim", therefore, is yours. Or do you have any evidence that you are not being surveilled?