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> nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users Fingerprinting users is no more a problem than using cookies, there are far more legit
by dangerface 7y ago
> nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users
Fingerprinting users is no more a problem than using cookies, there are far more legitimate reasons to use these things than illegitimate. The problem is Google and Facebook using these techniques to spy on people at massive scale.
Once again the problem is Google and Facebook not the internet.
- cyphar 7y agoThe problem with fingerprinting is that it's used to track users across sites. Cloudflare's "super cookies" and ordinary ad-network cookies are both examples of fingerprinting which use cookies and could definitely argued to be bad for user privacy. A text-based challenge-response captcha doesn't fingerprint you in any way. Google's reCaptcha does -- not to mention that it uses you for free labour that I would argue should be a violation of minimum wage laws in most countries (Google hires people to do data entry for ML, so why am I being forced to do the same work for free in order to post a comment on a forum or log into a website).