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Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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Re: Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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Post by eisleggje »

Fun site, but it got some things wrong:

- 8 core cpu. I have 24.

- devtools open. they are not.

- primary language. this one is strange, because I'd think the browser declares it pretty loudly. I have a fairly small regional language set as my primary, but it detects English.

- zero permissions. This is not true, Firefox actively opened a permissions button asking to access other apps and services on the machine. I decided to accept it out of curiosity - it didn't change the results in any way relative to blocking it.

- first time here. it thinks it's my first time on the page every time I visit.

Re: Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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Post by dolmen »

madiling wrote: post #12

> What you are using it on > > Your display scaling is set to 150%. > A fractional device pixel ratio (1.5) only comes from Windows display scaling. macOS uses whole-number ratios. So you're on Windows, and you've bumped the UI size up from the default. > Device pixel ratio = 1.5 im on linux though. the page even says earlier that im on a linux box.

Same issue here. Pixel ratio 1.25 on Linux, Firefox.

Re: Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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Post by kuberwastaken »

hotsalad wrote: post #9
Clamchop wrote: post #6

> It asked for zero permissions. Not quite. It requested to play DRM protected content.

And asked to create a WebGL context and to view canvas data. Closed and reopened the browser and revisited the site a couple times, and it thought it was my first and gave me a different fingerprint each time.

removed it! The latter should not be happening anymore either hopefully

Re: Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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Post by yev76 »

Good demo of the gap between "no cookies" and "no tracking". A chunk of the analytics industry sells "cookieless" where under the hood it's exactly this - a fingerprint doing the cookie's job. Easy way to tell the two apart: if a tool can recognize you as a returning visitor across days without ever asking, something is identifying you.
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