Anti-tracking and peer-to-peer technology with Sam Macbeth

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About the guest

Sam Macbeth is the Tech Lead for Cliqz based in Munich, Germany where he has developed innovative, user-empowering, and privacy-preserving software in the Cliqz browser, a fork of Firefox.

He has worked extensively on the Cliqz’ and Ghostery’s anti-tracking system. He also participates in the W3C Privacy Community Group, an attempt to standardise tracking protection approaches across browsers. Cliqz sadly stopped trading in April 2020.

Show notes

About Sam Macbeth

• Website
• Github
• Twitter

Donation choice

Each guest is asked to nominate an open source project for donations for their episode. Sam chose the Tor Project. If you enjoyed this episode please make a donation to the Tor Project.

About Cliqz

• Farewell from Cliqz
• Cliqz website (including search engine on home page)
• Cliqz blog
• WhoTracks.me
• Ghostery
• Working Draft podcast: Revision 410: Cliqz Browser and Search Engine with guest Krystoff Modras
• Tracking the Trackers – presentation by Sam at Privacy Week 2017
• Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox again

About DAT protocol

• DAT foundation
• Beaker Browser
• DAT-webext extension
• DAT protocol in the browser: Progress and Challenges – presentation by Sam at FOSDEM 2020
• Pied Piper – from Silicon Valley TV show

Other notable Peer-to-peer tech

• InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
• Scuttlebutt social network
• Web3 decentalised web

Other software Sam mentions

• Firefox containers
• AdGuard for Android
• AppCensus

Transcript

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