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Except that disabling JavaScript is an anomaly all on its own. The dozens of users running without JavaScript might not be individually fingerprint able but it'
by zamnos 4y ago
Except that disabling JavaScript is an anomaly all on its own. The dozens of users running without JavaScript might not be individually fingerprint able but it's still a small enough cohort that I don't know how much I'd lean on that. Figure in the user agent string and it's probably unique enough a subgroup to sell ads to.
- giancarlostoro 4y ago> Figure in the user agent string and it's probably unique enough a subgroup to sell ads to. But if you never see ads how do you sell ads to them and how do you meaningfully discover enough about the person to feed them valuable ads?
- zagrebian 4y ago> it's probably unique enough a subgroup to sell ads to I have been browsing with JavaScript disabled by default for the past 6 months. Based on my experience, no-JavaScript ads are rarer than four-leaf clover.
- Throwaway62884 4y agoMore common than you think https://amiunique.org/fpnojs https://amiunique.org/fpnojs
- nerdponx 4y agoProbably not a representative sample though.
- bawolff 4y agoAlso that cuts down the group so much, i imagine other things that are usually too coarse grained to be useful suddenly become much more useful. E.g. geoip location or accept-language headers.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoBut ads don't work without javascript.