Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by rvrabec on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:28AM (#24331785)

"High uniqueness hold seven when histories are truncated to just 100 top sites." This is similar to the app finger printing they do with mobile phones, identify you by the unique assortment of apps on your device.

Should the top concern be about identification or deep collection of browsing history?

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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by hombre_fatal on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:53AM (#24332677)

The point is that browser history collection is the same as cross-site tracking. Any 3rd party analytics operation like Google Analytics is able to access your browser history. To such a point that whether they do or not shouldn't matter and couldn't be proven anyways.

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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by elliekelly on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:16AM (#24332299)

Does iOS allow access to that information?

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Re:Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories by hombre_fatal on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:05PM (#24332767)

Making a request to any 3rd party domain on every page of the internet is what gives people access to that information.

It's not talking about a browser.getHistory() API. Owning the 3rd party resource (CDNs, analytics) that is loaded on most big websites is far better than that.

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