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Tracking Users with CSS (2018)

63 pointsby zinssmeisterover 6 years ago

5 comments

saagarjhaover 6 years ago
This article seems to have a threat model where a website is “compromised” into sending user data to a third party, but I don’t really see anything that protects users from a website whose owner actively wants to track them. This is an odd threat model to have.<p>Also, as an aside:<p>&gt; For example, by detecting whether the browser supports the Calibri font family, we can assume that the browser is running in Windows<p>I’m pretty sure that Safari has stopped allowing the use of third party fonts for exactly this reason, and now reports a standard set of fonts as being available.
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Tepixover 6 years ago
I like the idea of loading all linked content at page load time.
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jwilkover 6 years ago
Previous discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16157773" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16157773</a>
fawelo123over 6 years ago
Afaik doesnt work on Firefox.
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interfixusover 6 years ago
Css is fundamentally breaching the contract by messing in any way whatsoever with content.
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