AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

Re:AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that break... by tomrittervg on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:12PM (#49379597)

WebAudio fingerprinting is largely mitigated (in Firefox, potentially other browsers) - I wrote a quick overview that talks about the current distribution of values as well as our more recent efforts. https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html

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Re:AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that break... by emctech on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:25PM (#49382956)

Thanks for your input and perspective! Do you think it is a bug that the muting of the firefox tab doesn't stop the audio stream? It is frustrating that companies would use such an annoying tactic to track their users with it also ineffective.

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Re:AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that break... by tomrittervg on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:00AM (#49388198)

Yes, it is a bug, in fact it's this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863193#c9 which is of course getting some more attention now =)

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Re:AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that break... by emctech on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:47AM (#49388973)

Good to know! I have added a note and link to my post.

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