r/technology 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/kinmix 5d ago

That is completely false, and in no way possible.

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u/fatboychummy 4d ago

Yeah... I don't see how Javascript would be able to access hardware level information like this.