Which is, depending on your perspective, either terrifying or just stupid.
Right now anti-fingerprinting security is not very high on anyone's minds, but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies.
It's sort of like the wholesale elimination of privacy as a concept, you might say.
But hence the stupidity! It's too bold a move not to elicit a reaction from developers and users (who have the power to discover just how many bits of information they are leaking about themselves using tools like https://pbtest.org/).
So on one hand I can have websites that offer richer functionality by being aware of my time zone and locally installed fonts, or on the other hand I can have privacy. Hmm, which is worth more?
TIL about Web Audio, an API that allows any web page to find out about the user's sound setup (e.g. channel count and some kind of transfer function of the audio subsystem?) despite there being no legitimate purpose for that.
> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,020 tested in the past 45 days.
Damn how is this possible when I'm using a stock iPhone? I look at the characteristics and apart from timezone and language, how can they tell the same model iPhone apart?
> but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies.
I'm honestly curious, if you don't mind clarifying a bit more. How do your digital fingerprints follow you everywhere without your being able to erase them? This thread goes into device fingerprinting, but if one rigorously changes devices and certain use/account practices, how can they still be tracked so totally?
> if one rigorously changes devices and certain use/account practices
Your account practices will need to include only using an account on one device. Every time you use an account that identifies you on a device, that device can be associated to you; at that point its fingerprint is your fingerprint. Rotating devices faster just adds more devices to your identity.
Tor browser asks you if you want to allow fingerprinting or not when a site attempts to query your HW info. Not sure why other browsers can't do the same.
Right now anti-fingerprinting security is not very high on anyone's minds, but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies.
It's sort of like the wholesale elimination of privacy as a concept, you might say.
But hence the stupidity! It's too bold a move not to elicit a reaction from developers and users (who have the power to discover just how many bits of information they are leaking about themselves using tools like https://pbtest.org/).
So on one hand I can have websites that offer richer functionality by being aware of my time zone and locally installed fonts, or on the other hand I can have privacy. Hmm, which is worth more?