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How is Lumo recognizing that I maxed out it's free questions using Vanadium? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago* by to c/graphene_os@lemmy.sdf.org
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I'm not particularly technically knowledgeable so forgive me if this answer is obvious.

If I'm deleting my cookies/browser data, my OS Mac address is random when using vanadium, I'm using a vpn, and, it's not like I have a vanadium profile I'm logged into, how does the Lumo page "know" that I've maxed out the amount of times I've used it without having a Lumo profile? Shouldn't I be unrecognizable to the page?

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago

Obscuring fingerprinting doesn’t mean eliminating. The ad industry has made browser fingerprinting a very powerful tool and frankly just using a browser like vanadium (with a market share so low it’s probably not measurable) is a huge identifier plus whatever other bits they can grab (like time zone) are probably enough to fingerprint with reasonable accuracy

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