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For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
As this is basically a PR campaign for Brave, here's your reminder to stop using that software:
No doubt the takeaway from the article is supposed to be 'just use Brave' instead of 'don't fucking use AliExpress'
Is that why any tab (on Firefox) with aliexpress opened on it seems to always be showing that little loudspeaker icon at the top? There are a lot of products that have videos showcasing the product so at first I assumed it had something to do with that, but then I noticed it happens on products that only have photos, too.
yup
In that case it's by no means just one site doing this.
That happens?
I guess it is blocked on my system.
I did some js reverse engineering work on chinese websites few years ago and it's legit industry leading tracking tech. Very few websites in the west are even remotely as sophisticated in that regard.
Unsurprisingly China has the best tracking ecosystem but it's not for the reasons you might think. It's just so competitive in China that tracking and automation blocking is super important for chinese businesses.
Have you noticed that there's no such thing like internet archive in China? It's because nobody wants it. It's too dangerous to have recorded history of any sort.
nobody? you mean, not even the common people? what are the dangers they see?
Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types:
The CCP disagreeing with your version of recorded history, probably.
Will it be possible for you to share your findings?
I don't think we've discovered anything particularly niche that isn't public knowledge today. Since Fable-line of LLMs dropped deobfuscating and reverse engineering web and phone apps is very approachable. Github is full of resources and you can start with something like cloakbrowser
None of fingerprint tech is illegal in any way so it's a free for all and every browser except Brave (which yeah I know sucks) does basically nothing to fix this.
They've been doing this for a very long time, and I was forced to stop using their website as a result. Nothing new here. If you're on Firefox, you can use an addon called JShelter to alert you when fingerprinting is taking place (and optionally block it).
Firefox wouldn't let this happen btw. Just use firefox peoples
The original report showed this exploit occurred with Firefox too.
Old firefox. Removed this fingerprinting some time ago now
Even with uBlock origin?
Yup. The author included custom uBO rules to block it.
even with uMatrix ?
Oh no, I guess it's le shill lion from now on
Safari is slow to add features, did it work there too?
Why yes; Safari did add the ability for a web page to play audio on January 7th, 2003
I thought this was about a Bluetooth devices API though.
LibreWolf
Cartoon villains envy their creativity.
The very few times I had to open AliExpress and give it wide permissions because otherwise it simply refuses to show anything - I always felt dirty afterwards.
It doesn't matter, I've never bought anything there.
Well, that's a relief to all of us, I'm sure.