Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah 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
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
All of this is far easier to subvert than tracking scripts (and cookies and port scans) which literally as evidenced by the article in the OP are not techniques that companies have “gone away” from at all, at least not by entirely replacing them.