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Most interesting link I've seen today, thanks! So as long as you log in to Facebook often enough (more often than you install new browser plugins or fonts or w
by cousin_it 15y ago
Most interesting link I've seen today, thanks!
So as long as you log in to Facebook often enough (more often than you install new browser plugins or fonts or whatever), they can cookieless-track you perfectly when you're logged out, by remembering the browser fingerprint you had when you were logged in. And even if the fingerprint changes a little bit, they could use something like Levenshtein distance, combined with statistics of frequently visited sites, to have a good chance of identifying you anyway. In the hypothetical world where Facebook was an evil monster of surveillance, of course. I'm not talking about the real world here ;-)
So what can you do when faced by a hypothetical monster like that? Disabling third-party cookies is only the first step. Is there any reasonable way to anonymize your browser fingerprint?
- Vivtek 15y agoUse a different browser?
- MartinCron 15y agoIs there any reasonable way to anonymize your browser fingerprint? Maybe not totally anonymize, but a lot of the data that gets used for browser fingerprinting relies on flash to work, so if you run without flash on by default (click to flash, or whatever) that should help.