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My first guess would be that they were doing that as part of protecting their sign-in page against bots / automation, which is the kind of thing you need to do
by jsnell 6y ago
My first guess would be that they were doing that as part of protecting their sign-in page against bots / automation, which is the kind of thing you need to do to protect against credential stuffers.
Look, you've just signed in with a long-term stable identifier. There is no need for them to track you with any kind of fingerprinting.
- kohtatsu 6y agoWhich does make the fingerprint a lot more valuable if used in other contexts. This is why Google is so scary; they have biometric fingerprint data on everyone, account(s) or not, just through mouse/scroll patterns and cadence. Ideally we need to find the JavaScript making the motion API request and try determining what it might be used for.
- panpanna 6y agoThis is as bad excuse as TikTok's excuse for accessing the clipboard every 3 seconds.