Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier

Re:Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprintin... by scrollaway on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:45PM (#25378375)

Yes and no; it's still a cat and mouse game. You prevent one way, fingerprinters will find another way. And sometimes, the cure may be worse than the disease.

What also makes this a little different is that there's not many nefarious actors that truly benefit from fingerprinting random people. Fingerprinting is very useful in large scale operations, and it's hard to maintain a large scale web presence as an outlaw.

I fully agree that fingerprinting should be outlawed by privacy directives. But writing such a law correctly is really tough.

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Re:Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprintin... by godelski on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:55PM (#25379276)

Yeah I'm all for better privacy laws. Highly in favor actually. But this seems like the type of problem where you can't tackle from a single direction. I have to imagine there is a way to combat many of these tactics (at least enough to make them difficult) but I don't have the faintest clue of how to combat something like canvas fingerprinting which essentially is exploiting the silicon lottery.

I do not think laws go far enough because we live in a global society and laws don't exactly apply globally.

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Re:Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprintin... by expect on Saturday December 12, 2020 @09:20PM (#25403751)

Not really. If this large scale operation is run by a government. And law is country-divided mostly.

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