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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by userbinator on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:50PM (#48885676)
The idiotic "stealing" argument again? At least use "piracy" if you want to be correct...

The moment you openly publish information on the Internet, you have already given consent. There are other solutions to bandwidth usage.

User-agent discrimination should be illegal. All it does is further the control that Big Tech has, and help authoritarian governments with their control too.

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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by pdpi on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:57PM (#48885729)
As with anything IP-related, the data is licensed under whatever terms you choose to impose. That’s the extent of the consent you’ve provided.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by Asraelite on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:14PM (#48885840)
Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by NetMageSCW on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:42AM (#48894418)
Reading is using.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by Asraelite on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:14PM (#48895782)
No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.
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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by matheusmoreira on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:47PM (#48886500)
> User-agent discrimination should be illegal.

Couldn't agree more. Nonsense like remote attestation too. If this discrimination persists, it will lead to the destruction of what little computing freedom we still have.

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