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I don't want to be a killjoy here. Don't get me wrong, this is certainly a good thing but to me it seems like most major trackers are moving/has already moved to things like canvas fingerprinting, WebAssembly fingerprinting etc.

This seems to be like a typical cat-and-mouse game. And browsers will not get more privacy friendly as long as there will be a trend that moves applications and basically every aspect of our lives into the browser thus making it unbelieveably complex.

I suspect that we will soon have to choose to either live as a "digital hermit" (links/neomutt and other lightweight apps that do only the one thing) or give up and join everyone with Youtube/Facebook/Twitter.



> to me it seems like most major trackers are moving/has already moved to things like canvas fingerprinting, WebAssembly fingerprinting etc.

Also the upcoming WebGPU enabling by default in chrome will probably make it very simple to fingerprint almost anyone.


I'm blocking pretty much all website advertising. I'm sure I'm being tracked but I can't see their personalised ads so whatever. Out of sight out of mind.




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