Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
mirshafie@europe.pub 1 day agoIsn’t it a bad thing to be unique in this context? If my browser is 1 in a million, that means that a tracker can pick me out of a lineup of a million users, no? That’s why a captcha can verify you as human simply by checking a box, because it can identify your unique browser as associated with human activity.
If I’m not mistaken, we want the opposite. We want our browsers to be as generic as possible if we don’t want to be tracked.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I would think unique means you appear as a never before seen individual and not one they can identify from their fingerprint history. If you fingerprint twice and both are unique, you are secure.
mirshafie@europe.pub 19 hours ago
This somehow assumes that your fingerprint is going to vary, and be unique, every time you interact with a tracker. That’s basically not ever going to be the case for casual use.
If Cloudflare fails the tick-box Captcha and I need to tell it what squares contain motorcycles, that would suggest that I currently have a unique fingerprint that they do not have yet enough history on to tie to a person. How often do you get to do the square puzzle nowadays?