Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting
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New research provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.
  • RommieDroidEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I can assure you they’re doing more than that. If you see the recapture or cloudflare verification box, you have been cross-site fingerprinted. So if you turn a VPN on and you’re using the same OS and browser, they know who you are.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Browser fingerprinting is not new, it has been done for many years

    • KissakiEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      The concept is not new and is relatively well known.

      The article claims this is the first analysis and indication/proof that it is being used [by advertisers]. They do not claim that browser fingerprinting is new.