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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even then, most tracking is done through fingerprinting.

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well “block ads” is also shorthand for “block as many 3rd-party requests as possible while maintaining the desired content” which absolutely improves your privacy and prevents a lot of fingerprinting scripts from ever loading.

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      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the thing though, websites have gone away from “fingerprinting scripts” and have started finger printing you by what you serve, how and when you access it, and other things that they can all collect purely on the server side. The rest is just for advertising and data collection for improvements.

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