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bo1024 on June 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I left the ad industry because of data tracking

I would like to see more. How can you get their computer to compute the hash? Is it somewhere in the https interaction?

nerdponx on June 7, 2019 [–]

I don't recall the details, but it had something to do with a would-be security feature in the browser that computes the hash of something before following a link.

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