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Is anyone trying to tie users to multiple devices, and consequently identify both fingerprints as being from one user? I.e. Let's say I visit HN on both my lapt
by jefc1111 4y ago
Is anyone trying to tie users to multiple devices, and consequently identify both fingerprints as being from one user? I.e. Let's say I visit HN on both my laptop and on my mobile phone, each will have a very different fingerprint, but not only do I visit the same site on both devices but I am unlikely to do so simultaneously across the two devices, and there are likely to be other factors such as not visiting on either device during sleeping hours, not visiting on either device before some date (i.e. when I got into HN).
Perhaps you could call this something like 'cross-device fingerprint unification', idk.
- domh 4y agoI think it would have to have some code that tied those two fingerprints together... something like `fingerprint.identifyUser("jefc1111")` which would then store both of those fingerprints against your user id.
- jefc1111 4y agoAnother technique you that could be used would be to look for distinct fingerprints that both have visited the same extremely niche web addresses. Someone is surely doing this already.
- thakoppno 4y agoWe did a demo at CES in 2015 which retargeted users on a secondary device. The demo delivered an ad-unit on mobile after viewing an ad-unit on TV.