This would be useful for nation states and other organizations that are keen to know who is behind particular Twitter accounts.

Or you could just feed the site a load of details and have it map them to accounts.

Thus, for instance, if you suspected someone had a pseudonymous Twitter profile, you could give their contact info to Twitter, and the site would confirm their handle. This week, the biz confirmed that the Twitter user data that went on sale earlier this year was indeed taken via that specific security hole.Įxploiting the bug was pretty easy: it was possible to send an email address or phone number to one part of Twitter's systems, and have it tell you which Twitter account was associated with that contact information, if any, even if they had chosen not to disclose those details in their privacy settings. Twitter confirms data stolen via privacy blunderīack in January, Twitter fixed a privacy flaw that made it easy to unmask users. While this may placate some users, a lot of goodwill no doubt has been lost. 'For anyone who wants to avoid this, it's possible to disable ads in DuckDuckGo search settings,' the biz said, adding that it is working on removing support for with alternative non-profiling ad conversion tracking.

Ie, if you tap on an advert on a DDG search results page, get taken to the advertiser's website, and the advertiser pulls a script from to detect and record whether anything you subsequently ordered was a result of that advert, the browser won't block that script. That said, Microsoft scripts from, used to measure the effectiveness of web adverts, will not be blocked by DDG's mobile browser if fetched by an advertiser's website following a DuckDuckGo ad click.

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