• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Fingerprints have been ‘the new cookies’ for like 20 years, so I think it’s starting to stretch the definition of ‘new’.

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      3 days ago

      I believe quantcast had a white paper tracking an entity across multiple IPs and devices from 2010. that’s around when I worked for stalker tech companies. Anonymity is an illusion and has been for a while.