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Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous (hackaday.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Damn... I guess the next idea is going offline for good

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[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It could be done on the browser level (maybe it's something browsers like LibreWolf do), however, it would break sites that require the fingerprints to be the same for "security reasons" which may or may not be a legitimate claim.

You could say "well, I'm not going to use that particular website then", but the problem is that there are less and less websites that don't require these technologies to function properly.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Can you give an example of one of those websites?