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How do they encourage user tracking? The user agent string only tells you information about the browser, not the user.
by andrewguenther 11y ago
How do they encourage user tracking? The user agent string only tells you information about the browser, not the user.
- drdaeman 11y agoThey add extra bits of identifying information to the pool. You know, https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- Survey_Sez 11y agohttps://www.browserleaks.com/ https://www.browserleaks.com/ is another useful resource to help understand browser fingerprinting and how to combat it.
- pdkl95 11y agoIt's not the only data that is available for deriving a tracking key. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Why are you pretending that there is some sort of difference between "tracking a user" and "tracking the user's browser", which is close enough for most tracking purposes? Tracking the browser is tracking a user for a vast majority of people. For browsers on a phone, it is even more likely to be a 1:1 mapping.
- andrewguenther 11y agoThe user agent (by itself) provides you none of those things.... > Why are you pretending that there is some sort of difference between "tracking a user" and "tracking the user's browser" I'm not? That isn't what I said.