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1 extra bit is the last of my concerns, there's plenty of bits to uniquely fingerprint a browser anyways. I'd gladly trade one inconsequential bit, which requir
by pacala 6y ago
1 extra bit is the last of my concerns, there's plenty of bits to uniquely fingerprint a browser anyways. I'd gladly trade one inconsequential bit, which requires malicious intent to misuse, to keep my privacy safe when dealing with honorable entities like, I presume, Google.
https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/07/26/this-is-your-digital-fingerprint https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/07/26/this-is-...
What goes into one's fingerprint:
1. navigator.userAgent, 2. navigator.language, 3. navigator.doNotTrack, 4. screen.width, 5. screen.height, 6. screen.colorDepth, 7. Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone, 8. navigator.platform, 9. navigator.hardwareConcurrency, 10. GPU vendor and renderer, 11. isTouch, 12. storage types, 13. font-list, 14. canvas-hash
- pmiller2 6y agoOh, there is so much more that can go into a browser fingerprint. There is no one, single "browser fingerprint." Basically any API your browser exposes can leak information that can be used for fingerprinting. See: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- pacala 6y agoI don't understand. There are dozens, if not hundreds, or even thousands of bits to use to identify any given browser, but providing one extra such bit that politely asks 'Do Not Track' is now a problem because it makes tracking slightly easier?