Your browser lets websites track you even without cookies (www.zmescience.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

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