Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta
Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta
As Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently starts collecting your online habits with fingerprinting.
This article actually shares what changed, as opposed to just asserting that there was a change.
So I guess for Firefox users it's time to enable the resist fingerprinting option ? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/resist-fingerprinting
This has been the case for years. I develop fingerprinting services so AMA but it's basically a long lost battle and browser are beyond the point of saving without a major resolution taking place.
The only way to resist effective fingerprint is to disable Javascript in its entirity and use a shared connection pool like wireguard VPN or TOR. Period. Nothing else works.
So I thought this is never going to fly under GDPR. Then the article goes on to say:
Many privacy laws, including the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, require user consent for tracking. However, because fingerprinting works without explicit storage of user data on a device, companies may argue that existing laws do not apply which creates a legal gray area that benefits advertisers over consumers.
Oh come on Google, seriously? I remember a time when Google were the good guys, can't believe how they've changed...
Time for meshnet?
Just in time for their prophet, Curtis Yarvin, to be pushing a full-scale surveillance state!
Googlers aren't on our side. They want to rule. They think being a fucking admin on a server makes them cut out to run society.
They want to tear down democracy and basically replace it with administrator rules and access control lists.
Further evidence that a Republican government in the USA results in private organisations pushing the bar as far as they can.
In Reagan's time it was Wall Street. Now it's Silicon Valley.
You want private organisations working for your benefit and not that of their shareholders? You need a government that actually has the gumption to challenge them. The current US government is 4 years of a surrender flag flying on the white house.
Or we could bin off this fucking failed neoliberal experiment, but that's apparently a bit controversial for far too many people
But why would any browser accept access to those metadata so freely? I get that programming languages can find out about the environment they are operating in, but why would a browser agree to something like reading installed fonts or extensions without asking the user first? I understand why Chrome does this, but all of the mayor ones and even Firefox?
new? isn't this at least like a decade old method of tracking?
Digital fingerprinting is a method of data collection – one that in the past has been refused by Google itself because it “subverts user choice and is wrong.” But, we all remember that Google removed “Don’t be evil” from its Code of Conduct in 2018. Now, the Silicon Valley tech giant has taken the next step by introducing digital fingerprinting.
Oh, forgot to mention - we're evil now. Ha! Okay, into the chutes.
its captcha v3, its the same thing reddit uses to catch bots and ban evaders, apparently its expensive for reddit so they only mostly use it for ban waves.
Great read from Tuta on thia topic. It's been an issue for a while but Google going full force publicly on it causes this issue to grow greater.
I left a comment replying to someone further down about how this can be at least a little combatted and how it is with browsers. (At least to my minimal knowledge of it)
We're all gonna need to use whonix for basic shit now
Daily plug for Cromite, which is explicity built for anti-fingerprinting (through not just blocking, but spoofing and stripping systems out) and de-Googling:
@misk I think your federation software is broken. In Mastodon, the urls in your posts just lead back to themselves every time, not out to an external article.