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It's easier and common to do with JS, so it would be a really niche target. I was investigating it as a method of tracking users on Tor where JS is often disabl
by wybiral 8y ago
It's easier and common to do with JS, so it would be a really niche target. I was investigating it as a method of tracking users on Tor where JS is often disabled.
- chipperyman573 8y agoWhile really novel and interesting, would it really work that well on Tor/etc? Most people using those browsers are pretty privacy conscious and I feel like people would notice a connection that never closes
- wybiral 8y agoTor can also create a false sense of privacy because people think it will do all of the work for them. If they look at the network tab in their browser they can see it, but it just looks like a favicon asset that's really slow to load. And people usually assume that with JS disabled these things don't happen. That's also the purpose of using it in the favicon. It prevents the loading spinner so you'd have to inspect the connections.
- tinus_hn 8y agoYou could also consider that people using TOR explicitly do not want to be tracked.