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Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
(blog.lukaszolejnik.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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On a slightly brighter note, It will no doubt bring more attention to fingerprinting which in turn will speed up fingerprint obfuscation development and fingerprinting regulation. It will also add more people to the obfuscated user pool. Right now you are essentially helpless against fingerprinting because so few use obfuscation that you out yourself by using it, so google implementing fingerprinting might actually help people already using obfuscation. Non-JavaScript sites will also rise in demand and a debloating will occur.
I'd love to share your optimism, especially regarding that last sentence. As long as Google controls the most popular web browser out there, I don't see the arms race ever stopping, they'll just come up with something else. It wouldn't be the first time they push towards something nobody asked for that only benefits themselves.