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Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by travisporter on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:55AM (#20768762)
I enabled fingerprint blocking on Firefox after reading this. Does it break a lot of websites? This site says some banks use it to authenticate. https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-brows...
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by jazzyjackson on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#20769941)
I closed my accounts with Chase and Citi because I kept getting locked out of my accounts for suspicious activity. Disabling PIA VPN helped but I never could figure out what else about me trying to avoid being tracked looked suspicious.

Apparently they take a 'only criminals would clear cookies' approach.

Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by driverdan on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:28PM (#20771002)
I use very aggressive privacy protections and have never been locked out of Chase or Citi. I've had a lot of trouble logging in though.
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by _underfl0w_ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:00PM (#20771312)
Maybe you're mistaking that for "only criminals would use a VPN [to disguise the true origin of their web requests]" approach.

Still not an absolute one should be unequivocally confident in, but risk management types for a major bank... probably don't care.

Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:24PM (#20773287)
Then we simply decline to do business with them. Either they learn to care... or we don't care anyways, because they're no longer our problem.
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by Semaphor on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:11AM (#20768971)
I’ve always enabled fingerprint-blocking, first with extensions, now in the browser. The only places I had problems logging in are some very few online shops. Never a bank, and I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters (about 5 years ago)
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by _underfl0w_ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:02PM (#20771329)
> I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters

Clearly information security is their forte /s

Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by youngtaff on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:52AM (#20769444)
Some of the bot detection products use fingerprinting to try to establish whether someone is a real browser or not
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on th... by dineshdb on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:00PM (#20772306)
Use Canvas blocker which will give a fake fingerprint instead.