Comment on Browser Fingerprints Lead to Price Discrimination
Penguinblue@kbin.social 1 year ago
This has been going on for years, including inside the EU, for those wondering. You can test to see if it happens for you by going to a flight website, getting a price for a flight, then go back a few times to search for the same flight.
The question of what you do to fight it is by clearing the cookie for the website, using a different browser and/or changing your location/block tracking (use a VPN or tor). Usually clearing the cookie is enough.
jormaig@programming.dev 1 year ago
If clearing the cookie works, then this is not browser fingerprinting. Browser fingerprinting is about storing information about your browser (screen size, languages enabled, user agent, canvas rendering, and more) you can find whether this information is unique for your browser in amiunique.org
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
Ironically by using Firefox you’re already completely unique since Firefox has like 0.5% marke share lol.
Adramis@beehaw.org 1 year ago
42.65% according to the website they linked.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
You have to understand that this number is grossly skewed. Think of the person who would be most likely to use that website. It’s logical to assume that many of them are Firefox users, who tend to be more privacy oriented. The wctual market share of Firefox is low as fuck. I think it was like 1% lol.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks mate !