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Good, the less effective various spying techniques are, and the easier they are to throw off, the better the internet is for its users. I don't want any website
by nukeop 9y ago
Good, the less effective various spying techniques are, and the easier they are to throw off, the better the internet is for its users. I don't want any website owners to know what device, browser, or other program, I use to access their site, and they have no business knowing that. I like it being a piece of information I can supply voluntarily for my own purposes, and I get the heebie jeebies every time I read about a new shady fingerprinting technique that exploits some new, previously unexplored quirk of web technologies.
- zzzcpan 9y agoThis incentivizes more aggressive fingerprinting, not the other way around. Too bad people don't realize it.
- ladzoppelin 9y agoBrowser fingerprinting, I almost forgot. Non aggressive and impossible to stop.
- cortesoft 9y agoThe conclusion that this makes spying techniques more difficult is not at ALL what this article is saying. It is just saying that no fingerprinting is going to be able to distinguish between headless and not headless, but that is because there are too MANY variations, not because the variations are hard to detect. Nothing in this article gives any instruction or guidance on how to prevent your browser from being fingerprinted and tracked.