The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I imagine that most people who take an interest in de-Googling are
concerned about privacy. Privacy on the Internet is a somewhat nebulous
concept, but one aspect of privacy is surely the prevention of your web
browsing behaviour being propagated from one organization to another. I
don’t want my medical insurers to know, for example, that I’ve been
researching coronary artery disease. And even though my personal safety
and liberty probably aren’t at stake, I don’t want to give any support
to the...
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