There is still plenty of fish for advertisers, sadly.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get fucked, advertisers.
rdri@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get fucked, advertisers.
There is still plenty of fish for advertisers, sadly.
ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Advertisers track you with device fingerprinting and behaviour profiling now. Firefox doesn’t do much to obscure the more advanced methods of tracking.
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t all the advanced ways rely on JavaScript?
hoot@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lots do. But do you know anyone that turns JS off anymore? Platforms don’t care if they miss the odd user for this - because almost no one will be missed.
pixelscript@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“Anymore”? I’ve never met a single soul who knows this is even possible. I myself don’t even know how to do it if I wanted to.
I do use NoScript, which does this on a site-by-site basis, but even that is considered extremely niche. I’ve never met another NoScripter in the wild.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
uBlock origin + NoScript for me. I deal with the bigger umbrella of scripts with uBlock and then fine tune permissions to the ones that uBlock allowed with NoScript.
They might be fingerprinting me using these two extensions though.
pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I use LibreJS with few exceptions. If I need to use a site that requires non-free JavaScript, I’ll use a private browsing window or (preferably) Tor Browser.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Not all but most, yes. But TBF, sites that still function with JS disabled tend to have the least intrusive telemetry, and might pre-date big data altogether.
Regardless, unless the extent of a page’s analytics is a “you are the #th visitor” counter, all countermeasures must remain active.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It’s not much but they try a whole lot more than most.
ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s really strange how they specifically mention HTML5 canvas when you can run any fingerprinter test on the internet and see that Firefox does nothing to obfuscate that. You can run a test in Incognito mode, start a new session on a VPN, run another test, and on Firefox your fingerprint will be identical.
icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, they’re just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don’t recognize, it’ll still work.
The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn’t a reasonable thing to do by default.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly would be hard to do. There a perfectly legitimate and everyday uses for pretty much everything used in fingerprinting. Taking them away or obscuring them in one way or another would break so much.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
EU outlaws it
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The EU isn’t the only place on the planet, even if its laws have an impact.
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, you need uMatrix. although it can be tricky to use.