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> large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting The safest assumption is that fingerprinti
by gorhill 7y ago
> large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting
The safest assumption is that fingerprinting is and will be used regardless of whether local storages (of which cookies is one flavor) are forbidden -- these are not mutually exclusive.
- travisporter 7y agoI enabled fingerprint blocking on Firefox after reading this. Does it break a lot of websites? This site says some banks use it to authenticate. https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-browser-fingerprints-here-is-what-we-found-82c319464dc9 https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-brows...
- Semaphor 7y agoI’ve always enabled fingerprint-blocking, first with extensions, now in the browser. The only places I had problems logging in are some very few online shops. Never a bank, and I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters (about 5 years ago)
- _underfl0w_ 7y ago> I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters Clearly information security is their forte /s
- youngtaff 7y agoSome of the bot detection products use fingerprinting to try to establish whether someone is a real browser or not
- jazzyjackson 7y agoI closed my accounts with Chase and Citi because I kept getting locked out of my accounts for suspicious activity. Disabling PIA VPN helped but I never could figure out what else about me trying to avoid being tracked looked suspicious. Apparently they take a 'only criminals would clear cookies' approach.
- driverdan 7y agoI use very aggressive privacy protections and have never been locked out of Chase or Citi. I've had a lot of trouble logging in though.
- _underfl0w_ 7y agoMaybe you're mistaking that for "only criminals would use a VPN [to disguise the true origin of their web requests]" approach. Still not an absolute one should be unequivocally confident in, but risk management types for a major bank... probably don't care.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoThen we simply decline to do business with them. Either they learn to care... or we don't care anyways, because they're no longer our problem.
- dineshdb 7y agoUse Canvas blocker which will give a fake fingerprint instead.