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Cake day: December 22nd, 2024

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  • I don’t get why people are only blaming the companies doing it and not putting equal blame on browsers for letting it happen

    What do you expect browsers to do? They can stop telegraphing some of this information, but then the websites won’t render properly (they use this information to display the website properly), and your fingerprint would just be even more unique.

    Pretty much every browser outside of Chrome and Edge have implemented some sort of fingerprinting mitigation techniques.










  • Epic claims it increases sales (much in the same way that pirates do) but I suspect it’s just to get people past the very high barrier of creating an account and installing their (presumably) ad-ridden and data-collecting (they’re owned by Tencent) launcher.

    The former doesn’t make much sense to me given they could just buy those games on Steam anyway and have a much better experience.