Most users don't even know this type of surveillance exists.

On the internet, it’s easy to feel anonymous. If you don’t log in, no one can see who you are; you can even switch to incognito mode. The more savvy user would say that’s not really enough. To be anonymous, you need to clear your cookies and use a privacy-oriented browser.

But new research shows even that doesn’t work anymore. Websites are still tracking you — silently, persistently, and without your consent — by reading your browser’s unique “fingerprint.”

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    4·
    3 days ago

    we know reddit does aggressive fingerprinting besides using it to identify ban evaders, and im pretty sure they hand that data off to google and openai as well.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      5·
      3 days ago

      No anti-fingerprinting method currently in use can evade creepjs to my knowledge. And that EFF site has its own issues… it only tests uniqueness across other visitors the site has seen before, and not all possible combinations of data points.

    • ZeStig@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Any Firefox-based browser can be made to do this (I use Zen). This might not be totally bulletproof in this day and age.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      3·
      3 days ago

      Extensions themselves are also frowned upon by privacy advocates because anything that modifies or restricts the DOM/javascript/etc. can itself be detected and used as yet another data point to identify someone.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        More reason why script blocking and ad blocking should be native in Firefox (or whoever is gonna succeed them) with at least the same depth as uBO.

        Heck, just adopt and incorporate uBO into the engine.