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Regulation isn't universal, so it won't fix the issue. A company wanting to work around that can just contract with another running out of a country without suc
by dale_glass 2y ago
Regulation isn't universal, so it won't fix the issue. A company wanting to work around that can just contract with another running out of a country without such regulations.
Browsers should do their best to make fingerprinting a non-viable approach.
- StilesCrisis 2y agoI don't think fingerprinting can be stopped as long as JavaScript exists. There will always be some minor difference you can exploit or some cache you can misuse.
- didntcheck 2y agoThere is also the fact that there can be legitimate uses for APIs which expose information by design One of the few good ideas Google proposed is Privacy Budget [1], which now appears to be abandoned. In short the browser estimates how much information each risky API call discloses, and blocks further calls if the sum exceeds some threshold [1] https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/protections/privacy-budget# https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/protections/pr...