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Conversely, Chrome is heading in the right direction: >Chrome plans to more aggressively restrict fingerprinting across the web. One way in which we’ll be doin
by nattaylor 7y ago
Conversely, Chrome is heading in the right direction:
>Chrome plans to more aggressively restrict fingerprinting across the web. One way in which we’ll be doing this is reducing the ways in which browsers can be passively fingerprinted, so that we can detect and intervene against active fingerprinting efforts as they happen. [0]
This will include things like restricting the volume of Browser API checks allowed, etc, to reduce the number of bits that can be used in a fingerprint.
[0] https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-security-on-web.html https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu...
- robertoandred 7y agoChrome is just trying to start catching up to where Safari and Firefox are.
- wiredfool 7y agoChrome is restricting fingerprinting, but they still ship google analytics in the browser itself so it's harder to block. They'll only really block fingerprinting in their browser when they have no use for it.
- sroussey 7y agoSource for the claim of google analytics in the browser itself?
- erichocean 7y agoFirst I'm hearing of this. Citation?
- Zhenya 7y agoI do not see connections on my network to google when I open and browse to 3rd party sites. Can you show me that's true? If it is, that's fairly interesting.
- wiredfool 7y agoLook in the inspector of a page using GA, and you’ll see it’s served from within the browser, rather than as a download from the network.