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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

short of a website provider having access to my provider ip over time vs. customer data, how is my browser fingerprint uniquely identifying me when I clear cookies every now and then and often resize the browser window? Genuinely curious - obviously between clearing cookies there’s an issue, and also if I use logins to any websites that share data with some asshat like google analytics, they will recognize me across websites. And of course with the latest mozilla data grab, things will get worse :/

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DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not to redo the work of others:

What makes fingerprinting a threat to online privacy? It is pretty simple. First, there is no need to ask for permissions to collect all this information. Any script running in your browser can silently build a fingerprint of your device without you even knowing about it. Second, if one attribute of your browser fingerprint is unique or if the combination of several attributes is unique, your device can be identified and tracked online. In that case, no need for a cookie with an ID in it, the fingerprint is enough. Hopefully, as we will see in the next sections, a lot of progress have been made to prevent users from having unique values in their fingerprint and thus, avoid tracking.

A couple of useful articles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introd… (Excerpt above)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/3363335?…

There’s also a number of interviews with white and red hat hackers who delve quite deeply into the subject and how they’ve used this telemetry to go after black hats.

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