Re:Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting
by Gigachad on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:35PM
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Because they pretty much all power some kind of actual functionality. Users want the website to show up in their timezone, in their language, and to respect the light/dark mode options. Those are all legitimate functions, which also get used for tracking.
Security and privacy focused browsers and tools like Apple Lockdown Mode make some pretty significant compromises to maximise security.
Of course I know that in practice websites have been modifying their behavior based on the user agent string for years. But at least that information is supposed to be shared per the specs.
What I don't understand is why browsers are sharing lots of other information beyond the user agent string.