- cross-posted to:
- privacidade
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacidade
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Open-source tests of web browser privacy.
[EDIT] - Check the comments for more information and links 🔽 🔽 🔽
[Edit Edit] - Brave Browser caught adding its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency trading sites - More in the comments 🔽 🔽 🔽
Tracking/advertising corporations have developed techniques called ‘browser fingerprinting’ where innocuous seeming things like screen size and the fonts you ahve installed on your system can be used to uniquely identify you and track you across the internet even without cookies or anything like that.
@xe3 @Phen @ekZepp Screen size fingerprinting is so serious that Tor Browser has a feature where it snaps your screen size to a certain set of sizes, adding padding around the edges.