GDPR is regarding personal data, which includes cookies as well as any other fingerprinting. Even though browser fingerprinting does not persist any data on a device itself, explicit consent must be gathered before it’s used for processing (i.e. tracking) purposes.
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Leesi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Cookies are old news. What about browser fingerprinting which can track you across websites? www.amiunique.org
There’s basically no easy way to safeguard against it without making browsing nearly unusable.
dean@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days ago
But why unusable, why does a browser have to leak language, window size, time, extensions? Can’t those be spoofed?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
A lot of those things are also required to render a webpage correctly.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days ago
But isn’t most of that client-side processing? Can’t I request a vanilla generic page and once it is in my browser to process it to shape it into the window size and extensions I want? Even if it is an adblocker: serve me the ad, I’ll block it internally. But I suppose that for dynamic pages with js requests this would become hard to do.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
Yeah it’s Javascript that’s the issue that can just take all this data in the client and send it wherever. And that’s exactly what’s happening.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You will have your tor-connected 1024x768 anonymous window and you will like it!
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
tor-connected
You are unique!
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Tor Browser in normal mode is quite usable though, you just can’t use extensions and you need to start a new session whenever you use other websites so they can’t track you via cookies. Mullvad Browser is quite similar too.
farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
oh fuck i’m unique on every browser 😨
Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’d the website says that I’m unique in green font, it’s actually bad and should be red, isn’t it ?
elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Happened to me, too. Fuck!