this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Privacy

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On the internet, it’s easy to feel anonymous. If you don’t log in, no one can see who you are; you can even switch to incognito mode. The more savvy user would say that’s not really enough. To be anonymous, you need to clear your cookies and use a privacy-oriented browser.

But new research shows even that doesn’t work anymore. Websites are still tracking you — silently, persistently, and without your consent — by reading your browser’s unique “fingerprint.”

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[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 24 points 3 weeks ago

Privacy is one of those things that has to be collective to be effective. It doesn't matter if you put on a hat, a cloak, shades, and a fake beard when you go out of your home if you are the only one doing it, they'll just identify you as the person in a cloak, hat, shades, and a fake beard.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

No one follows the rules

This is why ordinary people should feel a duty to use adblockers, poison AI/data collection whenever possible, and to use alternative methods of protecting privacy (i.e. pirate rather than using streaming services).

If we can't be respected, then we should give no respect to organizations and governments who ignore privacy as a basic human right.

[–] who@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The most effective single mitigation against browser fingerprinting is to disable scripts. Unfortunately, many sites these days are needlessly built to be unusable without scripts.

The next best thing is to disable scripts on most sites, use the important others with uBlock Origin, and ask site owners to make script-free functionality a priority in their development plans.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Now more than ever I feel justified having used NoScript for all these years.