Re:Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenge...
by mobjack on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:20AM
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Requiring users to log in to websites is the most reliable to track them.
You are giving out a unique identifier that tracks you across devices.
Re:Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenge...
by auslander on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:14AM
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> delete cookies & cache every day
I'm browsing everywhere in Safari's Private mode by default, 3 years no problems.
Re:Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenge...
by cm2187 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:10AM
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It is becoming increasingly difficult though. Google captchas everywhere. Authentication requesting 2 factor because it thinks it is a new browser. The web is progressively becoming unusable unless you are loaded with cookies and tracked. And the culprits are the likes of Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, etc. Not easy to move them.
Re:Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenge...
by auslander on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:49AM
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Cloudflare somehow got better lately, I'm curious to know how :) Google search works fine and I'm not using other Google services. I see surprisingly few captchas. Yeah, I'm on VPN too, maybe they treat it differently.
Re:Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenge...
by jgrahamc on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:53AM
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Better at what?
It’s possible to be anonymous if you only log into websites with proper privacy policies, delete cookies & cache every day, and hide behind carrier NAT.
Adding a random font shouldn’t stop fingerprinting, people install new applications all the time. You make a lot of points, but ad tech can get around it.
Ideally ad corporations would be forced to delete records on people after 30 days.