Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by nattaylor on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:23PM (#22121023)

Conversely, Chrome is heading in the right direction:

>Chrome plans to more aggressively restrict fingerprinting across the web. One way in which we’ll be doing this is reducing the ways in which browsers can be passively fingerprinted, so that we can detect and intervene against active fingerprinting efforts as they happen. [0]

This will include things like restricting the volume of Browser API checks allowed, etc, to reduce the number of bits that can be used in a fingerprint.

[0] https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu...

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by robertoandred on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:11PM (#22121497)

Chrome is just trying to start catching up to where Safari and Firefox are.

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by wiredfool on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:51PM (#22121888)

Chrome is restricting fingerprinting, but they still ship google analytics in the browser itself so it's harder to block.

They'll only really block fingerprinting in their browser when they have no use for it.

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by sroussey on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:08PM (#22122057)

Source for the claim of google analytics in the browser itself?

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by Zhenya on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:05PM (#22123037)

I do not see connections on my network to google when I open and browse to 3rd party sites.

Can you show me that's true? If it is, that's fairly interesting.

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by wiredfool on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:48AM (#22125679)

Look in the inspector of a page using GA, and you’ll see it’s served from within the browser, rather than as a download from the network.

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Re:Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Preve... by erichocean on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:51PM (#22122426)

First I'm hearing of this. Citation?

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