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browsers could prevent fingerprinting. They could randomize information enough so that they still have the important bits but cannot easily be tracked.
by dx034 9y ago
browsers could prevent fingerprinting. They could randomize information enough so that they still have the important bits but cannot easily be tracked.
- tyingq 9y agoIt is a war of escalation though. You can be tracked via 304 responses and etags, for example. Fixing those client side isn't really practical.
- enraged_camel 9y agoYou don't need to prevent tracking completely. You just need to make it enough of a hassle so that it becomes too impractical or too expensive to do at scale.
- criddell 9y agoAnd then the ISP comes along and adds a super cookie to your traffic. It's ISPs that worry me the most. They see all the places you connect to. Even if you use https, they still know the endpoints.
- pacala 9y agoISPs can't add cookies to encrypted traffic going into a VPN relay.