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It's almost like web devs don't know the concept of traveling outside ones county.
Whether or not the information is accurate isn't really the point. It's that it serves as a way to identify you even without cookies. I looked for better websites, the EFF one[0] is informative. My browser fingerprint was unique among the visitors in the past 45 days. [0] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Exactly. A few weeks ago, there was an article about the age limit for social media. And everyone was full of criticism on how it affects privacy. But when there is a post about how browser profile serves de facto as a user identifier, then people are "Of course, what's the problem? We all know that, that's the way it has to be".
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its ease is also vastly inflated. If it was as simple as this site makes it out to be, companies like fingerprint.com don't exist.
Don't know about easy but their JS lib doing this is quite good: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs Honestly surprised to see it licensed as MIT now too. It was something less permissive before. They aren't doing anything too crazy, more like being the first ones to be open about it. I couldn't imagine what else companies like Google or Meta or TikTok can extract out of it that no one else can't. Integrat…
TBH, its never anything super exotic (though it helps) but simple stupid basic things like cookies that does 70% of the work here. Also, your IP address at home is _really_stable_.
If I can give you a sticky cookie (cookies, indexdb, localstorage), a half-assed fingerprint, and tie it to your IP-address, and know you're not on a cell-tower; this is probably good enough for most purposes.
Use safari on private relay in private mode.
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One thing is using information about my connection like my IP and a different one is my browser exposing the angle that I'm holding my phone. I should be able to expect some privacy from my device. What if my browser starts sending a picture of my front camera with every request, is that okay?
No, that wouldn't be ok, but if my browser did that, I wouldn't be mad at the website for doing something with the data I sent them. I would be mad at my browser, not the web site.
https://institut-fdh.de/?2026-aya
There's also this well known page which does the exact same thing in a more ordered way:
I am once again asking privacy advocates to try sounding normal for once. Trying to make a browser accessing your timezone sound nefarious isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
It's the usual terse LLM voice that makes everything sound dramatic. Nails on a chalkboard
Huh? The user mwheelz seems to have been [dead]'d in the time this post has been on the front page. If I look at their comments page, those posted more than 46 minutes ago (at the time of writing) are normally visible and the rest are [dead]. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mwheelz Mods, is there something we should know? Is there maybe a reason to stay away from the linked website?
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That's what frames are for. Only reload the frame with the important data in it (total cost, list of products in cart) and point the category links in the page to open in the same frame as the shopping cart. You can even style the frame contents with the main page's stylesheet so it only needs to load a `$41.29` total if that's all that's changed.
No, I did not defile myself that badly by using frames nor layout with tables either. I did layout with CSS. It wasn't just an update to the total. It was a proper modern day UI look (if not so much feel) so that it had a collapsible shopping cart on the side so you could see the items and quantities and link back to the item's page.
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its ease is also vastly inflated. If it was as simple as this site makes it out to be, companies like fingerprint.com don't exist.
Don't know about easy but their JS lib doing this is quite good: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs Honestly surprised to see it licensed as MIT now too. It was something less permissive before. They aren't doing anything too crazy, more like being the first ones to be open about it. I couldn't imagine what else companies like Google or Meta or TikTok can extract out of it that no one else can't. Integrat…