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Browser Fingerprinting – How websites track you across internet –without cookies (mysysinfo.com)
16 points by hackstar 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
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AI generated.

Looks like slop to me. It even lists the DNT header as part of your fingerprint. It must've been obsolete for over a decade by now.

Sometime who worked for an advertisement provider told me it worked well as a signal, though. This was before it was obsolete. So few people used it that it helped identify its users.

(His employer explicitly ignored it. They used an ML algorithm to assess signals, but they overrode that particular assessment as soon as they discovered it.)


the slopification is so tiresome

Complaining about it is even more tiresome, also useless. Also, at times the accusations are false. Worse yet, sometimes the accusations even are motivated with by those with a conflict of interest who want to suppress the information.



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