• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve had mixed results with it but there’s a few extensions that will send fake and generic data to any site that requests it. In some cases the webpage wouldn’t load.

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    12 hours ago

    No way! The Chinese government?? Trying to track users??? They would never!

    Every website from Facebook to Google has fingerprinted you my guy.

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        7 hours ago

        He said the scripts built a WebAudio graph that introduced a sawtooth oscillator to generate a waveform, an analyzer to measure the result after the waveform passes through a browser’s audio implementation, and a script to read the associated frequency data.

        This is a fairly interesting method of fingerprinting. Annoying too, as it hogs the audio channels as experienced by the discoverer