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const_void ( const_void@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Google’s Fingerprinting Returns In 8 Weeks And It Will Track Your Devices

www.forbes.com

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Google’s Fingerprinting Returns In 8 Weeks And It Will Track Your Devices

www.forbes.com

const_void ( const_void@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.
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    What’s scary is all of the ways they can track you even without your browser actively cooperating. For example, they can create an HTML5 canvas, render a bunch of shapes, and then probe individual pixels to get a read on your graphics card and drivers. The EFF has a very educational test you can subject your browser to in order to see how easy it is to fingerprint it based on these kinds of things.

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      Kind of surprised to see that Brave does much better in this test than Firefox with extensions (on Android)

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        Oh God, wait for the downvotes…

        Seriously, this is the reason I started using Brave.

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      This test just keeps refreshing infinitely

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