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The official registration page for vaccinations in Germany ( impfterminservice.de ) uses Akamai's Bot Manager, which in turn uses WebGL for fingerprinting. It d
by qwertox 6y ago
The official registration page for vaccinations in Germany ( impfterminservice.de ) uses Akamai's Bot Manager, which in turn uses WebGL for fingerprinting. It does a lot more, computes timings of certain tasks and stuff, all in all, pretty impressive work, but it is doing fingerprinting.
The privacy policy of the website doesn't mention this technique, which effectively is a replacement for cookies, nor the use of any of Akamai's services. It even CNAMEs Akamai.
So basically Akamai's service is left out of this list for no reason at all.
I stumbled upon this while trying to automate the querying for available slots to get notified via email, and one of the POST calls was sending my graphics card model to the server.
- userbinator 6y agoHave you told the government how this abuse of tech is making it less accessible and also a subtle privacy invasion? It's a bit disturbing that what would've probably been a simple HTML form a decade or two ago, and would still work just fine today, instead requires this extra crap.