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Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f... by throwaway290 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:18PM (#32170816)
You don't get to call a thing something it isn't simply because you don't like that thing.

The action of taking your fingerprint to identify you is fingerprinting. Providing you a handrail without a purpose of identifying you, even though it happens to take your fingerprint for anyone else, is not fingerprinting. Changing your fingerprint is not fingerprinting.

This is an abuse of a technology with more harm then benefit if you ask me. Calling it "fingerprinting" is still a category error.

Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f... by dymk on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:47PM (#32173971)
Changing something about the device so you can identify that device (or set of devices) later on is literally electronic fingerprinting.
Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f... by hayalci on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:05PM (#32195184)
Repeatedly claiming something doesn't make it true.

Here's what the Electronic Frontier Foundation says about fingerprinting.

"""Digital fingerprinting is the process where a remote site or service gathers little bits of information about a user's machine, and puts those pieces together to form a unique picture, or "fingerprint," of the user's device"""

From: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting

Here what TeamViewer is doing isn't fingerprinting. it's not combining unrealated bits of information to uniquely identify a user/computer. it's looking at literally one bit of information to identify whether the current non-uniquely-known user is in a -large- group or not, the group of "computers with teamviewer installed".

it can be claimed that this is adding to the bits that can improve a third party's ability to uniquely identify a user/computer, but that's a different claim, that's not what teamviewer is doing.