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surely, the user will be taught to enable the hardware for video if they start seeing stutter. Or the browser can prompt the user to switch to "high-end graphic

by chii 3y ago

surely, the user will be taught to enable the hardware for video if they start seeing stutter. Or the browser can prompt the user to switch to "high-end graphics" if it detects prolonged video decoding. If a website that has no obvious case for using the GPU, but is instead using it to fingerprint, then the user won't experience any slow downs from a software renderer (as it is usually done relatively quickly). If a website needs the GPU for their videos/graphics, but also incidentally wants to fingerprint you, you're shit out of luck in that case. But this is no worse than what we have current day.

TylerE 3y ago
Oh expect users to understand this? The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies?
- pietro72ohboy 3y ago
  > Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste? It would still be way less than what large companies are burning on training proprietary LLMs. Do you think the ChatGPT model you use daily was the success at first go? And in that same world, consumers should not even try to protect themselves from GPU fingerprinting? > The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies? Stop with the condescension. It's not about being confused; it's about mitigating genuine privacy concerns. We're not idiots, and dismissing genuine worries won't make the issues disappear.
  - TylerE 3y ago
    Maybe reflect on the irony presented by the two halves of your comment?
subtra3t 3y ago
If the user experiences stuttering while decoding a video, they won't learn to enable special permissions for the website but instead switch to a different browser that hasn't yet implemented this "feature". And most websites most users visit will need the GPU to be remotely usable. For them enabling specific permissions for every website they visit is very inconvenient.

by chii 3y ago

TylerE 3y ago

Oh expect users to understand this? The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies?

pietro72ohboy 3y ago
> Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste? It would still be way less than what large companies are burning on training proprietary LLMs. Do you think the ChatGPT model you use daily was the success at first go? And in that same world, consumers should not even try to protect themselves from GPU fingerprinting? > The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies? Stop with the condescension. It's not about being confused; it's about mitigating genuine privacy concerns. We're not idiots, and dismissing genuine worries won't make the issues disappear.
- TylerE 3y ago
  Maybe reflect on the irony presented by the two halves of your comment?

subtra3t 3y ago

If the user experiences stuttering while decoding a video, they won't learn to enable special permissions for the website but instead switch to a different browser that hasn't yet implemented this "feature". And most websites most users visit will need the GPU to be remotely usable. For them enabling specific permissions for every website they visit is very inconvenient.