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enter your email to continue reading (europe.pub)
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[–] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I see. I thought they were already doing that through browser fingerprinting or whatever. You're saying using your email compliments those tracking activities then, is that right?

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    With an email address, they can be a lot more certain you're the same person as everywhere else you've entered the same email address. Browser fingerprinting is a thing, but many people use different browsers at different times (e.g. one on their smartphone, one on their personal laptop, one on their work laptop, etc.).

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    As browser extensions tend to be an important part of fingerprinting, it could make sense to run a very minimal setup, like just uBlock origin or Adnauseam but nothing else. That way, you should be able to blend in with the crowd a bit better, as opposed to using the 20 extensions you currently have. Also, having a random collection of plugins that changes every hour could be good too. Surely, there's a way to fake that. The browser should send a signal to the website about 50 extensions that supposedly are installed. Basically, like a random MAC address, but with extensions.

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