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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by miloignis on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:58AM (#44170253)
The existing killer app for WebRTC is video chat without installing an app, which is huge.

Other P2P uses are very cool and interesting as well - abusing it for fingerprinting is just that, abusing a user-positive feature and twisting it for identification, just like a million other browser features.

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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by account42 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:37AM (#44170602)
You mean just like a million other "user-positive" browser features pushed by the biggest tracking company there is.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by zdragnar on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:06AM (#44177400)
The technique doesn't actually rely on webrtc though, does it? Not showing up in the default view of chrome's network inspector obfuscates it a bit, but it's not like there aren't other ways to do what they're achieving here.
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