Re:Can I run analytics without defacing my website with anno...
by XCSme on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:43PM
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Is fingerprinting fine for self-hosted services if it can not link to a specific individual?
Fingerprinting across the web is bad because you can use it to target a specific user, but if a company that has a website tracks locally all this data (self-hosted), then they are only able to tell if a user is a returning user or not without being able to share "this user" with any other platform or 3rd party.
Fingerprinting across the web is bad because you can use it to target a specific user, but if a company that has a website tracks locally all this data (self-hosted), then they are only able to tell if a user is a returning user or not without being able to share "this user" with any other platform or 3rd party.