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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Thing is most people just don’t care, and don’t understand it. Also, it turns out it’s really easy to fingerprint people. Your list of installed fonts alone is enough to fingerprint you in many cases, and it’s easy to figure out your entire list of installed fonts with JavaScript.

    Add a few more data points like screen size and resolution, user-agent, and you can fingerprint 90% of people. And if that’s not enough, every device—even individual video cards of the same model—renders an HTML canvas differently enough that it’s detectable.

    It turns out it’s very hard to not be completely unique when you add all the up.

    I feel like it should be a crime to do fingerprinting like this, and to grab and store the browsing habits of every citizen for their whole life, but this is America (for me), and it’s never going to change.