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It’s amazing just how much we lose here, elsewhere, and in browsers, because we have to worry about fingerprinting.

• lesuorac 3y ago
  It gets even more funny when you realize that devices & browsers let you set data per device that you can just retrieve later ... Why bother fingerprinting when you can just assign them an id and retrieve it later. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck https://engineering.deptagency.com/securely-storing-data-on-ios https://engineering.deptagency.com/securely-storing-data-on-... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...
  • Aloisius 3y ago
    That doesn't give you a fixed device ID like fingerprinting does. A fixed device ID survives even when an app is uninstalled and reinstalled and is the same for unaffiliated apps.
  • saagarjha 3y ago
    That gives you two bits of data, which is designed to not be easy to fingerprint with.