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Most of the nefarious tracking is taking place via canvas fingerprinting these days, clearing cookies does nothing but make the unaware user feel good they're "
by 1101010010 3y ago
Most of the nefarious tracking is taking place via canvas fingerprinting these days, clearing cookies does nothing but make the unaware user feel good they're "doing something".
- bomewish 3y agoCare to elaborate?
- 1101010010 3y agohttps://browserleaks.com/canvas https://browserleaks.com/canvas Open it in a regular and "incognito" browser tab. This is a long term identifier of your browser which persists across cookie clearing, IP address changes and other ritualistic totems privacy-seeking individuals still inexplicably cling to.
- hosteur 3y agoHow do one protect against this?
- 1101010010 3y agoSimply don't allow Javascript.
- trh0awayman 3y agoUnfortunately, even that might not be enough these days with newer fingerprinting methods.
- coldblues 3y agohttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...