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Took 9 years for it to get chucked out of the PC space. The annoying thing is that with the rise of the open web, fingerprinting has become significantly easie
by Jonnax 8y ago
Took 9 years for it to get chucked out of the PC space.
The annoying thing is that with the rise of the open web, fingerprinting has become significantly easier.
Private browsing or a VPN doesn't make you anonymous because your web browser is fingerprint-able because of the peculiarities of the hardware its running on.
That not to mention things like Google Chrome for Android that puts your phone model and software build number in the user agent. That puts you in a very small population especially with carrier customised software versions.
Combine that with even the basics of fingerprinting, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting) then you are known.
- andrepd 8y agoYou can disable or cripple fingerprinting by disabling or faking the data you send.
- chrismeller 8y agoTails even warns you about resizing the Tor Browser window because the size of the window could fingerprint you. The difficulty of avoiding fingerprinting multiplies exponentially depending upon how paranoid you are (or need to be). Keeping Google from knowing (passively) who you are is one level. Keeping the oppressive governmental regime you’re exposing the corruption of that has a dedicated secret police force actively attempting to track you by name is completely a different one.