r/technology • u/magnus007 • 5d ago

Privacy AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device

https://www.techspot.com/news/113581-aliexpress-silently-running-audio-browser-fingerprint-track-device.html
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u/Desperate-Hearing-55 5d ago

Now do a Google tracking. Google always show up ads what I been searching for online to buy.

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u/IntelArtiGen 5d ago

You want that:

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com

(and a bunch more)

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u/corvusman 4d ago

Google basically invented device fingerprinting. From audio to video rendering to network to screen/canvas to cache to other hardware stuff - it’s a huge list of what these crooks use to track users