Basically title. Recently I saw a new option in Chromium website permission settings called “allow access to local network” or something like that and I know some antiviruses on Windows that can list all devices connected to the same WiFi network. I’m usually using Firefox based browsers that obviously don’t have the option to disable or enable that access. So can some really invasive websites mine data about my local network, connected devices etc? And if so, what can I do to prevent it except for just disconnecting everything else when visiting such websites?
That depends on what’s making it take so long, among other things. But with sufficient effort I suppose the more sneaky fingerprinters (those which aren’t aren’t already blocked by other extensions) could probably be made difficult to notice for unprepared users. JShelter popping up a big warning about a “very high” level of fingerprinting activity is a pretty good hint though, and I take it as a suggestion to add some rules for ublock if I expect to visit that site again.
As it continues to get more common, maybe it’s time to go back to using noscript as well.