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> t's likely that there are other ways other than cookies and fingerprinting that companies can track you. Any idea how they would do that?
by red_trumpet 4y ago
> t's likely that there are other ways other than cookies and fingerprinting that companies can track you.
Any idea how they would do that?
- mishu2 4y agoUsing something like this, which I would personally make illegal: https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/ I also tried setting privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in Firefox, but it's sad to see that most websites become unusable (most sites using canvas just render a green/purple mess), zooming in Google Maps is basically broken (skips several levels at a time), and like others have mentioned dark mode and time zones also stop working. What a mess the (somewhat private) web is nowadays. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced legislating privacy is the only way out of this arms race we seem to be losing. EDIT: Sorry, the parent post already included fingerprinting, missed that. Rant still stands though :)
- josephd79 4y agoDevice ID tracking should be illegal period.
- webmobdev 4y agoPaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ http://www.palemoon.org/ - a hard fork of Firefox, includes a setting called canvas.poisondata which really messes up browser fingerprinting without distorting any canvas use on a site. It is also a zero telemetry browser and doesn't make any automated connections on startup if the appropriate settings are enabled / disabled (unlike Firefox).
- red_trumpet 4y agoFingerprint.com actually claims[1, FAQ -> GDPR] > we never do cross-domain tracking. Not sure if that is true though... [1] https://fingerprint.com/pricing/ https://fingerprint.com/pricing/