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It's enough to narrow you down to a specific bucket. E.g. "affluent white young male in his 30s in a specific neighbourhood" and serve you ads and news. Collate
by illiarian 4y ago
It's enough to narrow you down to a specific bucket. E.g. "affluent white young male in his 30s in a specific neighbourhood" and serve you ads and news. Collate with a few other sites (even airline checkouts and boarding pages have tracking), and you have a close enough match.
The worst part of this? Trying to hide from fingerprinting makes your fingerprint more unique
- geysersam 4y ago> Trying to hide from fingerprinting makes your fingerprint more unique Didn't seem so in the experiment in the article. Sure they'll be able to place you in the bucket "tor user", but is that really more narrow than what you'd get without Tor?
- TylerE 4y agoProbably. Tor is not something most people use unless they have something to hide. No, I don’t care about the one time you downloaded a gentoo iso over tor.
- olabyne 4y agoUsing Tor might stop them to track you in a unique way, but they can for sure put you in the basket of the 0.1% of Tor users
- bauruine 4y agoYou can easily do this by looking at the IP address. All exit node IPs are public, you don't need browser fingerprinting for that.