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EU (or whoever) could mandate a switch in the browser, when turned on, all identifying apis are disabled. But the IP is still the same, so..
by apples_oranges 1y ago
EU (or whoever) could mandate a switch in the browser, when turned on, all identifying apis are disabled. But the IP is still the same, so..
- troupo 1y agoThe law has been around for almost 10 years now. If browser vendors wanted, they could have come up with such a switch themselves. Guess which company is coincidentally is the world's largest advertiser, largest ad broker, largest data tracker and owns world's most popular browser?
- kennywinker 1y agoNon-hostile websites use identifying apis for functionality. Disabling them globally means a broken browsing experience.
- afiori 1y agoThis falls into the same problem as the DNT header, while being a good technology it will be used by so few people that is might very well increase fingerprinting capabilities in some ways.