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Re: Browser Fingerprinting
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Browser Fingerprinting |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:51:25 +0200 |
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Tomas Nordin wrote:
>> Here is an interesting article on so called "Browser
>> Fingerprinting" [1]. This can be of some concern to
>> people using uncommon browsers like Emacs-w3m.
>
> I did this test at https://panopticlick.eff.org in
> 2017 [...]
That doesn't work for me, just says
loading...
Refresh (3 sec) [...]
>> Of course, the IP is still there, because otherwise
>> the server won't know where to send the requested
>> HTML. I think it is much more likely that tracking
>> will be done using that, than the
>> browser fingerprint!
>
> Maybe. EFF explained to me at the time that browser
> fingerprinting is more effective since IP can change
> over time and can be fiddled with with VPN and so on.
> (Of course browser can change as well but anyway)
Without an IP that points from the server record to your
conapt, just knowing that someone with a certain browser
has requested a service from the server - I don't think
that will be enough to associate the user with the
action - not legally, and not even practically, let's
say you deal with organized crime or live in
a dictatorship - or am I wrong? Because how will they
find you?
> Browser fingerprinting for tracking users ought to be
> illegal. It's just wrong, no matter you have something
> to hide or not. Edward Snowden said something I agree
> with -- saying that you don't care about privacy
> because you don't have anything to hide is like saying
> you don't care about freedom of speech because you
> have nothing to say.
Well, OK :)
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- Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/15
- Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/15
- Re: Browser Fingerprinting,
Emanuel Berg <=
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, tomas, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, tomas, 2020/04/18