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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

We once ran a trial at work for a lead generation software.

It could show who visited your website, what company they worked for, how to contact them, their socials and even a video of exactly where they pointed and clicked their mouse.

No sign up required, all by fingerprinting.

Shit was creepy as fuck, glad we don't use it anymore.

It also made me realize fingerprinting is almost impossible to avoid. There's so many little things gathered to identify you, it seems unavoidable to be traced.

[–] siravious@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and add the OS itself spying with an unremovable universal ID, by a company who proactively reports on you, and wtf moments really turn surreal.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

It upsets me that in working with webpages, I regularly look at “all” the network traffic going to a website - and clearly Microsoft’s GUID is hiding somewhere it won’t even show.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 6 days ago

Fuckit, lets all go install templeOS.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Tor Browser is the only real defense.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago

Oh god. I had to save this image and now I will use the sticker version of it everywhere.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They didn't really develop it, it just kinda happened, because browsers send so much goddamn data to the servers

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry but, that's BS. Coders developed it. I should be punching multiple coders but someone somewhere made this happen. They could have said no.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, this is BS and not how the real world works. If would be fine if you've left it as a meme. Developers (in corps) don't decide what they'll work on.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 6 days ago

Alas, but, tragedy of commons and game theory [(and FOMO)] have us racing to the bottom (~ along with a dozen other things impeding an effective collective bargaining, or any of the other things that would otherwise allow us to have nice things).

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

*Just following orders.*™

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately there are many developers that apply the Banality of Evil to their doings.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago

Is there a queue?

[–] iterable@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Get CanvasBlocker on Firefox

[–] architectonas@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

Lots of little pieces of data about your setup. Combined together they create a combination that is extremely unique and allows companies to track you across the web.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Yes! You are unique among the 5376518 fingerprints in our entire dataset.

Nice

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

its a datamining tool, and used aggressively by reddit to overban people.

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