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handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago

Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting

engineering.tamu.edu

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Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting

engineering.tamu.edu

handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago
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New research provides first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.
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    I have never been able to figure out how to block fingerprinting without entirely disabling my browser and it looks like the race to the bottom is accelerating

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      maybe blocking it is the wrong way to go about though. Instead there should be some way to make the fingerprinting data worthless by having everyones browser constantly change things in the background so the fingerprint changes too

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        CanvasBlocker addon.

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        https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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