#fingerprinting — Public Fediverse posts
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It's easy to assume a VPN keeps you private, but they're not effective against the most prevalent form of cross-site tracking: Browser Fingerprinting.
Our latest video covers what browser fingerprinting is in detail and what you can do to protect yourself from trackers, plus we spoke with @ruihildt from @mullvadnet for more info on what the top privacy browsers are doing about this problem.
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/09/12/what-is-browser-fingerprinting-and-how-to-stop-it/
:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_50cBtSjyQ
:peertube: https://neat.tube/w/2TQztsQGZ6ZPiJVSUtSDHa#BrowserFingerprinting #MullvadBrowser #TorBrowser #BrowserFingerprint #AmIUnique #Fingerprinting #Privacy #Chrome #Firefox #PrivacyGuides #Video
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
#HydraVeilVPN #NymVPN #surveillance #dataprivacy #browserfingerprinting #privacy #webtracking #SurveillanceCapitalism #permissionlesstech #foss #freesoftware #VPN
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Scientific study finds that #adtech IS using browser #fingerprinting to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking #cookies and #trackers 😒
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
They call on browser makers to do more. @jon is your team putting effort into this area?
@johnnyryan I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the #RTB system and #databrokers 🙏
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→ Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21g0052dno“[O]pponents to the change say fingerprinting and IP address collection are a blow to privacy”
“"The same tracking techniques that Google claims are essential for online #advertising also expose individuals' sensitive information to data #brokers, #surveillance companies, and law enforcement," [Lena Cohen, staff technologist at the EFF] added.”
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... “users have even less control when ad tech providers use permanent and immutable identifiers, like those derived based on device fingerprinting, since there's no central place for users to manage those” // #PrivacySandbox
@LukaszOlejnik
#Google #Security #Privacy #Fingerprinting #Advertising #Tracking
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/ -
#Business #Analyses
Google’s policy change towards fingerprinting · Is this the biggest privacy erosion in 10 years? https://ilo.im/161i77_____
#Google #Advertising #PrivacySandbox #Privacy #Tracking #Fingerprinting #Device #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
You know how #RichardStallman #GNU laments #javascript but also how nothing works without it? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
Alright, so say you torsocks lynx ( #KU ) #ProjectGutenberg. Alternately, you could use highest security #TorBrowser with #noscript. But have you tried #Vanguards #Whonix GW with #vlc ? There is a lot that can be done with vlc for media that wouldn't work in a tor browser (netscape-plus) with vanguards. You would think that there is more anonymity because more people use the more popular #browser / #terminal -plus method but there are trade-offs with functionality and less data leaking. Is less data leaking a form of fingerprint? @mokancan
#Forensics #JavaScript #Anonymous #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfInformation #censorship #Fingerprinting
