It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you

Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by singularity2001 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:38AM (#16686470)

while theoretically possible there are enough people monitoring Google's JavaScript to make sure that they will never use fingerprinting on you. Or do they?

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Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by code_duck on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:49PM (#16693052)

I assumed that all large sites use code like this to filter out fraudulent and abusive accounts.

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Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by singularity2001 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:41AM (#16686489)

Can someone please revive Random Agent Spoofer?

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Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by chopin on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:00AM (#16686837)

It's better to switch off JavaScript. Try panopticlick with and without it.

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Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by mercora on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:18AM (#16686912)

i just tried but sadly it did not finish without allowing js on their site and for both of the thirdparty tests. It might would have finished if i would not have enabled this test though.

However, even if it would show better results then my user agent and accept header is apprently pretty unique anyhow. But why bother.. My ip addresses do not change that often.

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Re:It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying... by singularity2001 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:00AM (#16688404)

yes, noscript is a must, however not enough against fingerprinting

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