From time to time, important news gets overshadowed by other headlines, even though it could have a profound impact on our (online) world. To most of us, few things are more bothersome than the dreaded cookie banners. On countless websites, you’re confronted with a pesky pop-up urging you to agree to something. You end up consenting without really knowing what it is. If you try to figure out what’s going on, you quickly get lost among the often hundreds of “partners” who want access to your personal data. Even if you do give your consent, it’s questionable whether you truly understand what you’re agreeing to.
Cookies are old news. What about browser fingerprinting which can track you across websites? https://www.amiunique.org/
There’s basically no easy way to safeguard against it without making browsing nearly unusable.
If the website says that I’m unique in green font, it’s actually bad and should be red, isn’t it ?
Yes.
Happened to me, too. Fuck!
You will have your tor-connected 1024x768 anonymous window and you will like it!
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GDPR is regarding personal data, which includes cookies as well as any other fingerprinting. Even though browser fingerprinting does not persist any data on a device itself, explicit consent must be gathered before it’s used for processing (i.e. tracking) purposes.
But why unusable, why does a browser have to leak language, window size, time, extensions? Can’t those be spoofed?
Tor Browser in normal mode is quite usable though, you just can’t use extensions and you need to start a new session whenever you use other websites so they can’t track you via cookies. Mullvad Browser is quite similar too.
oh fuck i’m unique on every browser 😨