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  • 5gruel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    what does that even mean? what aspect is more generic that could be used for fingerprinting?

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      13 hours ago

      fingerprinting can be based on detecting what resources are blocked, and sometimes also how are they blocked. but blocking will become the baseline, so nefarious companies will have less of chance to tell the difference

      • 5gruel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        thanks for the explanation. I misunderstood the statement. makes more sense that it makes fingerprinting harder.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        A better way to phrase it is “Not every Firefox install has uBlock”.

        The way you worded it suggests to native English speakers that Firefox and uBlock are mutually exclusive, which isn’t the caze