This journalist went beyond "OMG they're fingerprinting us!"
They talked to the fingerprinting sites that they found, explained why it's bad, and got a few of them to promise to remove the fingerprinting 3rd parties. That's progress! More of this please. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
They talked to the fingerprinting sites that they found, explained why it's bad, and got a few of them to promise to remove the fingerprinting 3rd parties. That's progress! More of this please. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
Hey @geoffreyfowler thanks for your work and I hope you'll do a follow-up in a month to check if the sites that made promises followed through on them. And also ask the other sites if they've changed their minds after being named and shamed. 🤔
@geoffreyfowler Irony: if you clicked on the link, the Washington Post may have fingerprinted you. I can't tell if it's better or worse to fingerprint only users who've blocked cookies.
@geoffreyfowler Turns out they used OpenWPM for their investigation—a software tool built by @s_englehardt and other members of my research group. The thread below is the story of how OpenWPM came to be. Super gratifying to see its use spread beyond the walls of academia.
