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Seems almost impossible to police though.

• tonyedgecombe 1y ago
  Yes, it’s probably worse to have unenforced regulations than no regulations.
• Sanzig 1y ago
  Since fingerprinting is mostly client side, it should be detectable. If you serve a web page with a fingerprinting script, that should be an automatic big fine.
  • MontyCarloHall 1y ago
    Sites would then avoid running purpose-built fingerprint scripts and collect fingerprint metrics as a side-effect of necessary activities. Lots of sites need to know window/screen size, DPI, installed fonts, timezone/locale, etc. as a matter of being able to function properly. It would be impossible to know whether a site is also using this information to fingerprint users. The unsolvable problem is that modern websites are not simply documents but rather full-blown software with web browsers their runtime environments, and you simply cannot enable that amount of power without also enabling the power to fingerprint that runtime environment and thus fingerprint the user.
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