We have over 10+ years of employing this tech, and we've found fingerprints for a browser are constantly changing. As such, they are far from being a silver bullet when used as a persistent identifier.

Furthermore, in corporate environments where boxes are set up the same for many users, there are often, or too often, two different users and two different boxes with the same exact fingerprint.

Fingerprints are used for over a decade already, nothing new, just users keep closing their eyes despite knowing, even advanced ones.

I'm skeptical of this magic trick, maybe add a counter with the amount of times I logged in to the website. Or let me save some data to read it from another session. Otherwise lots of people can be identified by that hash, there's no proof that it is unique

>and the solutions Google has developed (Privacy Sandbox) kinda suck and have raised antitrust concerns so nobody uses them.

This is backwards. The antitrust concerns of removing 3rd party cookies led to them developing alternatives.

idk man fingerprints don't taste that good

> Let’s give it up for Google - the biggest ad company on Earth

I think Google needs to be forbidden from causing more damage to the EU market. And there need to be replacements too, once we forbid this Evil entity from sabotaging EU citizens any further.

We also need real open browsers not controlled by greedy Ad companies.

I am also aware of the irony of using thorium here right now (based on the adChrome code base). If I use Firefox, I can not listen to audio since mozilla claims only systemd-pulseaudio using people can listen to audio. Well, chrome plays audio on youtube (which is also owned by Google, do people begin to see how big of a problem Google has become) just fine, so I have no idea what Mozilla devs are smoking. I could recompile firefox, to just use ALSA, but who in his right mind wants to compile a 1% usage base legacy browser that uses ancient technology to compile its outdated code base please?

See: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/firefox...

Mozilla gave up decades ago on fighting adGoogle. And it can be seen via small things too.

Ladybird may be a competitor at one point in time but they ban people from their github repository, which also sends the message "do not contribute to us because we don't care about you if you have dissenting opinions". Well, so much for real competition, when projects get all emo early on. You can't beat the evil adGoogle empire with wishful projections about "conduct of people". That's not going to work. I don't subscribe to any random ruleset made by random people I don't know and don't want to know when they resort to censorship. But hopefully more and more people realise that something has to be done about Google one way or another.

> See, the thing is, it’s not about you at all. It’s not really about the ads anymore either. Nobody cares about you. And if the police or your government happen to care, I’ll gladly take their money too.

> I look at all this data and I don’t see people. I see patterns. Patterns emerging out of patterns. A living, digital fractal state of the economy, society and human psyche. The crystal ball of the 21st century and it’s made of silicon! That’s the product.

> And to the highest bidder it goes!

> What does that make you then? A gear? An ox? A volunteer?

This does absolutely nothing for me. If this resonates with you, can you explain?

I can understand worry about a tyrannical government, and if you have something like a gambling addiction I can understand about ads. But the meta-level privacy fear about deidentified patterns - I just plain don't get it.

wow on chrome based browsers, the fingerprint survives even in incognito mode.

On Safari, fingerprinting doesn't survive in incognito mode. Same with Firefox.

Good thing I use different computers for different purposes, though it looks like using different browsers seems sufficient.