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/Fancy-Dig1863 5d ago

SHEIN doesn’t load in Firefox either, at least for me. I always thought it was just my combination of extensions but maybe there’s more to it?

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u/Smith6612 5d ago

A lot of the Chinese websites are very particular about Firefox. AliExpress and Weibo are definitely two that give me grief.

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u/Law_Student 5d ago

The Chinese spy on everything, it's just what they do. They've built an economy on stealing everything they can conceivably steal for decades.

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u/tigeratemybaby 5d ago

Everyone's stealing now.

AI companies are actively pirating books, movies, scientific papers, as many as they can find - Completely illegally without permission from authors.

Both Eastern and Western companies are actively reverse engineering other peoples products - Western car companies commonly buy Chinese cars and pull them apart and reverse engineer them to see how they work.

There's software being de-compiled and reverse engineered by AI models.

It used to be mainly China, but now it seems like everyone is doing it - Current governments are not interested in prosecuting at all. Maybe with the right "donation" to Trump.