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Interesting article but its rich as fuck coming from a company whose sole product is weaponizing the ever increasing scope of browsers against users

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Yeah I don't know how to interpret this article. Is it a warning to users about a new threat to privacy, or is it an announcement to customers about improved tracking capabilities in Android 12/a potential product update?

Even if it's just some inbound marketing blog spam bullshit, why would a company whose business it is to violate and exploit privacy want to post an article that will attract people who are concerned about privacy?

Hey there, I work at FingerprintJS.

We don't believe in third party tracking and only focus on first party anti-fraud use cases. We publicly reveal any methods that we detect as being pure third party tracking privacy violations so that they get patched.

I suspect first party anti-fraud tracking methods and third party tracking methods have a lot of overlap. What are meaningful differences?

It is certainly a discussion we are having internally often. Overall we focus on identifiers that are not uniquely identifiable to a person on their own without taking them in aggregate, which makes them harder to share across unrelated domains. We also generally avoid anything personally identifiable (name, email, etc) that could be tied back to anyone in particular - we aim only to accurately identify a browser or app instance itself.

I take the article as an advert to say 'use us to fingerprint people, we are always thinking of different ways to reliably finger people'

that's what i thought, fingerprintjs is kind of symbolic for hard to prevent tracking

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