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The Law of Unintended Consequences may yet have the next laugh.

• flukus 9y ago
  I fear you're right. There are already techniques like canvas fingerprinting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting) on top of what the browser already shares (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint). You aren't safe from tracking unless you disable javascript entirely. The only winning move is not to play.
  • PeachPlum 9y ago
    Even without JS, my browser scored "only 5 browsers out of the 481932 observed browsers (0.00 %) have exactly the same fingerprint as yours." https://amiunique.org/fpNoJs https://amiunique.org/fpNoJs With JS turned on https://amiunique.org/fp https://amiunique.org/fp I got : "your full fingerprint is unique among the 481933 collected so far."
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  Expand?
  • PeachPlum 9y ago
    I'm posing the question: Will the cure be worse than the disease? They won't just roll over and say "oh well".
    • dredmorbius 9y ago
      Fair enough. Though Google seem to be trying to specify a minimum standards floor.