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Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by bitL on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:42AM (#20468183)
Does the container provide "fake" lowest common denominator environment so that your browser cannot be fingerprinted? Are mouse movements and keyboard typing frequency randomized to avoid matching one's behavior to a subset of all users? If not, you are easy to spot.
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Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by throwawayyy6349 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:45AM (#20468200)
You can enable privacy.resistFingerprinting in firefox's about:config to thwart fingerprinting.
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Re:Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from ... by ehnto on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:03AM (#20468299)
We should be pushing for laws against fingerprinting. It was a cool idea, anonymously track users, but in practice it's not anonymous at all. Make a device fingerprint be PII and require tracking tools to get explicit consent before fingerprinting.
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