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Apps will find new ways to fingerprint. There's only so much you can prevent on a Turing complete computer.
by yellow_lead 3y ago
Apps will find new ways to fingerprint. There's only so much you can prevent on a Turing complete computer.
- user-the-name 3y ago[dead]
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- arlcode 3y agoI think, as usual, this will not be solved by a technical cat and mouse game (in which the cat can always decide it likes the advertisement money that comes from tracking after all), but with a piece of paper from the local legislative body appropriate enforcement against app developers. Anything else is bound to not be in the users interest.
- sebzim4500 3y agoIn this case the mouse has superpowers, since it can ban the cat from the app store permanently.
- kaba0 3y agoI don’t think that’s true. It is true for ad blockers-ads, but you can make a completely indifferent execution environment with no access to the outside. Of course you can also just try to learn the movement of cursor/touch screen, but I don’t think that would be accurate enough. People are much more likely to just self-fingerprint themselves.
- labcomputer 3y agoWhile I agree with this, I think the value lies in making the fingerprints less precise. You can think of a fingerprint as akin to a hash of your device's unique ID. If hash collisions are frequent enough, the value of the fingerprint is reduced.