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.
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.
It might be stored locally, then shared with a call home through telemetry after which Microsoft then sells it as “anonymized” data, which is then again recombined with other sets by the buyer to recreate your profile.
I read that they can combine 3 anonymized datasets to fairly accurately identify a person.
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.
Tor Browser is the only real defense.
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.
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.
It might be stored locally, then shared with a call home through telemetry after which Microsoft then sells it as “anonymized” data, which is then again recombined with other sets by the buyer to recreate your profile.
I read that they can combine 3 anonymized datasets to fairly accurately identify a person.
Fuckit, lets all go install templeOS.