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20 days ago by perishthethought to c/memes

Why would you do this to us?

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otter 75 points 20 days ago

Unfortunately some of the stuff that allows fingerprinting falls into a convenience vs privacy argument. It allows a website / web app to make changes to display things more appropriately, or have helpful functionality. That's why when you use a browser that is very strict about fingerprinting, some stuff will break.

An even simpler example is the screen aspect ratio. On a small screen, you want to use as much of the space as you can, but that information can be used for fingerprinting. This was annoying on browsers like mullvad, before they updated the aspect ratio to something more modern.

That doesn't excuse companies that abuse that data for malicious fingerprinting.

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valar 41 points 20 days ago

I'd rather have less interactive (or whathaveyou) websites than the fingerprinting. The trade wasn't worth it.

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lauha 0 points 20 days ago

You'd rather have your browser use the bandwidth to download all 500 language versions and 200 otherwise localized versions of the website and use some random language as default, maybe chinese or spanish for being the biggest languages.

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bryndos 21 points 20 days ago

Is it possible for URL to request the one that i want? I feel like i remember different language versions of webpages from before browser fingerprinting - though I guess I don't know long ago it started.

Even so, it seems like it only needs to know my request as a one of 500 group. An individualised fingerprint of 1 in 10bn seems like overkill to me. Assuming that's what fingerprint means in this context.

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lauha 12 points 20 days ago

Be requesting the specific language site you are giving them the information anyway.

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cavitationfetishist01 12 points 20 days ago

Some browsers literally have a 'spoof is language to english' option to anti fingerprint. To hide in the horde.

And I'd rather DL 500 languages of actual content than 1mb of page and 2GB of ad shit.

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Axolotl_cpp 2 points 20 days ago

Bold of you to assume that modern websites will not be 1gb of pages and 2gb of ads

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