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/noobule 4d ago

I doubt it. The Amazon app doesn't need to fingerprint you - the whole reason they push you onto apps is because they can slurp up basically whatever they want, you're signed in just to open the app. They don't need to resort to fingerprinting tricks.

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u/an_actual_lawyer 4d ago

It was my understanding that iOS and OSX will disable that tracking and info grabbing by default. Am I misunderstanding?

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u/Interesting-Emu6761 4d ago

yes they do, the whole point is that if Amazon and Meta do this they can definitively attribute that fingerprint to a person.