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Doesn't include motion sensors, I think there might be a few other recent additions also missing. Of all the sites on Earth that I could learn this existed in
by BelenusMordred 6y ago
Doesn't include motion sensors, I think there might be a few other recent additions also missing.
Of all the sites on Earth that I could learn this existed in the browser, it was rolling stone, with some generic static article on something I can't even remember.
Why exactly does a magazine need access to my gyroscope, magnetometer and acceleration sensors? Especially considering that I'm on a desktop that thankfully doesn't have such things.
- bhrgunatha 6y agoMy cynical guess is to help identify you to advertisers or something to sell to data brokers.
- kube-system 6y agoUnless the page has some feature that obviously uses accelerometer features, it’s 100% that, no cynicism necessary. This is a not-uncommon fingerprinting technique.
- bchanudet 6y agoIn order to experiment with WebXR without having my Oculus continously on my head, I installed the WebXR emulator extension from Mozilla. I'm stunned how often I get the permission prompt on completely unrelated websites. I guess it allows tracking scripts to do even more fingerprinting.
- capableweb 6y ago> I'm stunned how often I get the permission prompt on completely unrelated websites. I have the same problem and found that the embedded Vimeo player assumes all videos could be played in VR, although the video is a normal, flat video, so any webpage embedding a Vimeo video, prompts that permission notification for me, although the actual video could be on a different page but still initialized on page load.
- yread 6y agoTo see whether you're rolling?
- cmg 6y agoThe magazine doesn't, but advertisers are interested in using this as yet another way of fingerprinting you: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamd/paper/NDSS2016.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamd/paper/NDSS2016.pdf [PDF warning]