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▲ MiroslavPokorny 3 hours ago

Theres only one solution, ban third party advertising. Everything else is a compromise that doesnt work anyway.

▲charcircuit 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Fingerprinting is still needing for preventing fraud and platform abuse like spam.

▲Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How do you tell the difference between a regular human trying to not have a weird creepy perma-dossier collected on them... versus a bot set up to always look like a new visitor?

The only winning move is not to play--er, to somehow not to have this kind of game in the first place.

▲wyager 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn't actually work for that

▲anthonyIPH an hour ago | parent [-]

I worked in fraud prevention for years and device fingerprinting didn't stop fraud, but it reduced it by upping the up the cost. It is not hard to circumvent fingerprinting, but it still takes a non-zero amount of effort on behalf of the fraudster. Device fingerprints helped us identify and block or prevent a lot of low effort fraud and abuse on various platforms.