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Traitors (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Why would you do this to us?

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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Is it possible for URL to request the one that i want? I feel like i remember different language versions of webpages from before browser fingerprinting - though I guess I don't know long ago it started.

Even so, it seems like it only needs to know my request as a one of 500 group. An individualised fingerprint of 1 in 10bn seems like overkill to me. Assuming that's what fingerprint means in this context.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    browser fingerprinting

    Thing is, while it wasn't called "browser fingerprinting" immediately, it basically started as soon as JS was around. And feature-detection / media-queries actually make for better compatibility than just User-Agent strings (and other headers).

    Content negotiation never really caught on, as best as I can tell. There's a number of headers that the client can send so that the server can select a version by language, content-type, and a few other things, but in all the web deployments I've ever done content-negotiation was never a consideration.

    Almost any information can be abused.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Be requesting the specific language site you are giving them the information anyway.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    I'm ok to give them 1 in 500 resolution (or whatever rough order of magnitude) to tell them i want to read the EN version. That's a lot less precise than 1 in 10 billion or whatever the fingerprint is.

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