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comment by am_Unition

    Users can either use Tor...

Do these people read other tech articles?

Besides Privacy Badger from the EFF, you can still use a VPN, provided you can afford $40/year. I use Private Internet Access, they've even funded at least one privacy awareness campaign.

Edit: VPN may not entirely circumvent this, actually...





user-inactivated  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Do these people read other tech articles?

Mmm, yeah, no. I mean why would they when they have people like you! Rather push some numbers than being 100% accurate.

am_Unition  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry that I offended you... Chris Smith?

    push some numbers

Wanna buy some numbers, kid?

user-inactivated  ·  3784 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, sorry, I think I came across wrong. I'm with you on how easy it is to work around this type of tracker, I posted the article more to showcase this type of tracker (since I haven't heard of it before) than to point out the authors inaccuracies. Hence my short description on it being sensationalist.

am_Unition  ·  3784 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ahh, alright, that's fair.

To be sure, the "fingerprinting method" is worth knowing about, but you're spot on about the sensationalism.

Cheers!