On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:47:00 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote: > > I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking. > > Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that. I'd agree. But my bank, to increase security, tried to use both a regular cookie and an LSO cookie. Fortunately, I convinced them that I shouldn't have to have a third party private app installed to access their website, and they removed it. Or, more likely, made the LSO cookie non blocking. [snip] > And there's the rub, these days. Now that dial-up is dying off, many > users have persistent IPs (not quite static, but most likely to keep > on using the same IP). You can't just block something once it's > touched you, wipe your cache, and be a new anonymous person on your > next session. And thanks to browsers with tabs, or multiple windows > that do not act like isolated programs, one session can last a very > long time, as you close your window with your bank, but other windows > remain open. Yeah, I used to have an ISP like that, same IP every time. Now, my ISP gives me a random IP from their range every time I log on to their network. I tend to keep only minimal tabs open, not because of privacy primarily, but because I don't like the clutter. I have read that there have been exploits that allowed a website running malicious scripts to gather information from other open tabs in the browser, but I think those are fixed now. Once we are using IPv6, though, everyone will probably get assigned an IP address at birth, and keep it for their whole life. :-) Sayanora privacy, and welcome to the goldfish bowl. Maybe some enterprising souls will start a site that operates as a nat or proxy for IPv6, so that everything goes through their randomly assigned IPv6 IP addresses, and routes the information to the real address anonymously to the queried website. > > I wonder if any browsers have a randomiser in them to jiggle the > tell-tale signs that browser fingerprinting makes use of? I'm not aware of a plug in that does that, though I think it is possible to change some of the information the browser gives out. The trouble is that website client side apps have to know what's available for their use, so they are allowed to query the browser to find out the environment they are operating in. And once they do, they have the browser fingerprint. So, the trackers piggyback on that to find the environment as a fingerprint. If the environment is blocked to stop the trackers, the legitimate apps won't be able to function properly. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
