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Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta (tuta.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Waldschrat 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I know that it has that in theory, but my Firefox just reached a lower score on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ (which was posted in this threat, thanks!) than a Safari. Firefox has good tracking protection but has an absolute unique fingerprint, was 100% identifiable as the first on the site, as to Safari, which scored a bit less in tracking but had a not unique fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably because Safari is default macOS and most people leave it at default settings. I doubt Apple is doing anything special here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Apple is doing good on the privacy browser front because it makes the data they collect more valuable