Fingerprints are the new cookies(royfish.dev)
694 points by royfish | 333 comments
Interactive post demonstrating browser fingerprinting by assigning a persistent nickname derived from audio, GPU, WebGL, canvas, time zone and hardware signals.
#cookies on Hacker News
6 stories tagged cookies, newest first.
A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking(biometricupdate.com)
29 points by paimapi | 7 comments
Biometric Update article on the launch of the federal AI portal America.gov and how its Login.gov authentication code sets a long-lived browser identifier, raising tracking questions.
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector(buchodi.com)
689 points by lmbbuchodi | 360 comments
Blog post analyzing how OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets an __obi cookie tied to ChatGPT accounts that is sent from other websites users visit.
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings(lapcatsoftware.com)
508 points by ExMachina73 | 89 comments
Jeff Johnson's blog post reporting that Chrome 152 again exempts Google-owned sites from the user setting to delete site data, six years after a similar bug.
The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)
692 points by ingve | 392 comments
Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.
Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better(utcc.utoronto.ca)
326 points by ingve | 210 comments
Chris Siebenmann's blog post on using extra Firefox profiles, one per site, to keep login cookies for annoying websites while browsing with JavaScript off elsewhere.