Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not sure about the “nightly” part (as opposed to beta or stable), but yes.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I prefer nightly because about:config is accessible unlike on the mainline version. Does Beta also allow that?

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    • limerod@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Beta does and unlike nightly doesn’t update every night.

      There’s also Fennec on fdroid if you need something stable with about:config support.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Using such a unique browser version is very de-anonymizing.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Could add a user agent spoof?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Even then, most tracking is done through fingerprinting.

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      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah it makes me laugh when people talk about “don’t use cookies” or “block ads” like companies didn’t switch to more advanced techniques (like hell, I saw a paper where they could fingerprint you just simply by how you interact with the webpage) 15 years ago

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