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It can't be made entirely illegal so IMO a better way would be to remove or restrict the APIs that fingerprinting scripts abuse. Make browsers hypertext viewers
by grishka 1y ago
It can't be made entirely illegal so IMO a better way would be to remove or restrict the APIs that fingerprinting scripts abuse. Make browsers hypertext viewers again!
- thrance 1y agoWhy can't it be made illegal? And from the article, a very succinct explanation as to why browsers will never be fingerprint-resilient: > Chromium (Chrome) is built by Google, an advertisement company which tracks its users for showing relevant ads. So naturally it doesn’t have any inbuilt protection against fingerprinting.
- quantas 1y agoEven if they make it illegal, it won't stop bad actors especially from foreign countries to abuse stuff like this. It's better to build better systems that fix this issue instead of relying on government laws. You could compare it to the concept of security by obscurity which is obviously bad.
- fsflover 1y agoIt's already illegal in Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670345