DarkWinterNights
@DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 17 hours ago:
Not to redo the work of others:
What makes fingerprinting a threat to online privacy? It is pretty simple. First, there is no need to ask for permissions to collect all this information. Any script running in your browser can silently build a fingerprint of your device without you even knowing about it. Second, if one attribute of your browser fingerprint is unique or if the combination of several attributes is unique, your device can be identified and tracked online. In that case, no need for a cookie with an ID in it, the fingerprint is enough. Hopefully, as we will see in the next sections, a lot of progress have been made to prevent users from having unique values in their fingerprint and thus, avoid tracking.
A couple of useful articles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introd… (Excerpt above)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/3363335?…
There’s also a number of interviews with white and red hat hackers who delve quite deeply into the subject and how they’ve used this telemetry to go after black hats.
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 1 day ago:
Frankly already a moot point - your browser fingerprints are already uniquely identifying (even before IP, cookies, and backend analytics). Realistically, tho, just more info for them to sell, leak and then eventually pay $0.25 per person in Google Play credit in the class action settlement.