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   Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 06:33:04 JST Nazo

   That moment when you find out that tracking on the Web is so bad now that sites actually use the size of your browser's window as a possible mechanism to track you by.

   What have we become as a species that this is where we are?

   #Privacy #Tracking

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     Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 06:33:02 JST Karl Auerbach

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     • Éamonn

     @eob @nazokiyoubinbou EFF has a fingerprint tool to test your browser's resistance. Link below.

     It would be easy for browser makers to add things to block certain kinds of fingerprinting - like putting some random bits around webcanvas etc.

     There no particular code of ethics that governs browser makers or website publishers - it would be better if this kind of tracking were unlawful.

     https://firstpartysimulator.net/

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     Éamonn (eob@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 06:33:03 JST Éamonn

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     @nazokiyoubinbou Yeah, this is an unethical tracking technique called fingerprinting

     By combining together browser window size and a bunch of other browser attributes, it is sometimes possible to uniquely identify you

     It is unethical, because it can be used in place of a cookie for tracking, even if the user has disabled or restricted cookie use

     Vagrant Cascadian repeated this.