Tracking Users with CSS (2018)

Re:Tracking Users with CSS (2018) by Tepix on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:34AM (#18976919)

I like the idea of loading all linked content at page load time.

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Re:Tracking Users with CSS (2018) by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:32AM (#18977148)

That’s bad for mobile - especially if a website has really large images for high-DPI devices. I think you can configure some mobile browsers to always download low-DPI assets to save on bandwidth.

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Re:Tracking Users with CSS (2018) by Tepix on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:21PM (#19013858)

You could make it optional. Right now there's almost nothing you can do when you visit a site even if you know it uses this technique.

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Re:Tracking Users with CSS (2018) by AnaniasAnanas on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:08AM (#18977282)

By linked I hope that you mean things like images and CSS style-sheets rather than actual <a> links. If so, I totally agree with you, this kind of lazy loading that css utilises is a true privacy nightmare.

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