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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by mindslight on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:51AM (#44171336)
Browser functionality needs a hard segmentation into disparate categories like "pages" and "apps". For example, Pages that you're merely intending to view don't need WebRTC (or really any sort of network access beyond the originating site, and even this is questionable). And you'd only give something App functionality if it was from a trustable source and the intent was to use it as general software. This would go a long way to solving the other fingerprinting security vulnerabilities, because Pages don't need to be using functionality like Canvas, USB, etc.
Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by charcircuit on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:52PM (#44176794)
If it's more profitable for a page to be an app why would people make pages?
Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by mindslight on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:37PM (#44176999)
It's only "profitable" if people don't bounce at being asked to trust a random news article, or something-embarassing.com, with their personal information. Same as why native Android apps don't just ask for every single permission. People in general do care about their security, they just lack tools to effectively grok it.