Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity

Posted by hidden-spyder on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:50AM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/browsing-history-identity/515763/

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Re:Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity by londons_explore on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:55PM (#27384117)

Well duh... Seeing me visit facebook.com/superguy8 all the time tells you I'm probably him...

Plenty of URL's have identifiers in that either say who is logged in, or at least suggest it.

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Re:Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity by karmakaze on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:12PM (#27386688)

As a netizen, browsing history == identity

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Re:Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity by velgewp on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:49PM (#27388448)

Yes a recent study also manage to generate unique identifier if you are using different browsers on the same machine. Some installed apps were responsible for the same, like Spotify, Telegram etc.

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