Professional web developer and hobbyist programmer from the Welsh Marches. I'm particularly interested in performance, accessibility, and reducing carbon emissions from software.
I'm in complete agreement here. It may also be subject to the same restrictions as cookies, but we all know cookies are regularly abused when different websites pool their data on individuals.
I suppose a big advantage of having this as a open-source project is it might make it easier to develop tools to circumvent it. We know that many unscrupulous websites are already fingerprinting users (try running some websites to use through Blacklight, the results can be scary), so knowing how they are doing so is better than having to guess.
The prevalence of tracking scripts and finger-printers is the reason I do most of my day to day browsing using Tor browser. Just because I'm not doing anything illegal doesn't mean I want websites tracking everything I do.
Thanks for the link to Blacklight — that's a really interesting website.
Looking at the Github for FingerprintJS there's an thread about the ethical implications of the project: #430.
The authors defend themselves by saying the library helps defend users from privacy violations by being open source, and therefore bringing to light these issues.
They build weapons so world can better defend itself against people who use their weapons.
@savannahjs
Does fingerprintJS also maintain an opensource library for protecting users?
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I'm in complete agreement here. It may also be subject to the same restrictions as cookies, but we all know cookies are regularly abused when different websites pool their data on individuals.
I suppose a big advantage of having this as a open-source project is it might make it easier to develop tools to circumvent it. We know that many unscrupulous websites are already fingerprinting users (try running some websites to use through Blacklight, the results can be scary), so knowing how they are doing so is better than having to guess.
The prevalence of tracking scripts and finger-printers is the reason I do most of my day to day browsing using Tor browser. Just because I'm not doing anything illegal doesn't mean I want websites tracking everything I do.
Thanks for the link to Blacklight — that's a really interesting website.
Looking at the Github for FingerprintJS there's an thread about the ethical implications of the project: #430.
The authors defend themselves by saying the library helps defend users from privacy violations by being open source, and therefore bringing to light these issues.
They build weapons so world can better defend itself against people who use their weapons.
@savannahjs Does fingerprintJS also maintain an opensource library for protecting users?