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They said "hard proof". Can you point to openly available "hard proof"? Otherwise your reply is just snark that doesn't add much.

antonok 1y ago
As someone who's been building an adblocker for the last 6 years: yes, there's plenty of proof in the devtools console on more websites than you'd think. Fingerprintjs [1] is a well known one that gets a lot of use. And if you check EasyPrivacy, you'll see the rules to block it [2] have been in place for a long time. [1] https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs [2] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/132813613d04b7228c3d43bd21f3fa13077edaec/easyprivacy/easyprivacy_general.txt#L908-L913 https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/132813613d04b7228c...
JimDabell 1y ago
Why do you think a porn site was trying to access MIDI devices? To play some smooth jazz? https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-javascript-black-hole/xhamster-cropped.png https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-ja... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063
mbrubeck 1y ago
From over a decade ago, a paper on then-commercially-available browser fingerprinting tech, including a study of its deployment in the wild: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, and Giovanni Vigna. 2013. Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP ’13).
leptons 1y ago
Yes. I wrote the code that did it, way, way back when.
salawat 1y ago
Iovation is at least one companies script I know that the financial sector tends to use to get some fingerprinting on. Youngsters, please don't be skeptical. Surveillance hellhole-wise, fingerprinting is and will remain a perennial corporate favorite thing to do.

antonok 1y ago

As someone who's been building an adblocker for the last 6 years: yes, there's plenty of proof in the devtools console on more websites than you'd think. Fingerprintjs [1] is a well known one that gets a lot of use. And if you check EasyPrivacy, you'll see the rules to block it [2] have been in place for a long time. [1] https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs [2] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/132813613d04b7228c3d43bd21f3fa13077edaec/easyprivacy/easyprivacy_general.txt#L908-L913 https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/132813613d04b7228c...

JimDabell 1y ago

Why do you think a porn site was trying to access MIDI devices? To play some smooth jazz? https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-javascript-black-hole/xhamster-cropped.png https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-ja... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063

mbrubeck 1y ago

From over a decade ago, a paper on then-commercially-available browser fingerprinting tech, including a study of its deployment in the wild: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SP.2013.43 Nick Nikiforakis, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, and Giovanni Vigna. 2013. Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP ’13).

leptons 1y ago

Yes. I wrote the code that did it, way, way back when.

salawat 1y ago

Iovation is at least one companies script I know that the financial sector tends to use to get some fingerprinting on. Youngsters, please don't be skeptical. Surveillance hellhole-wise, fingerprinting is and will remain a perennial corporate favorite thing to do.