AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/24/aliexpress-accused-of-fingerprinting-shoppers-with-silent-audio-trick-that-also-muted-a-devs-headphones/5291662
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 17d
No way! The Chinese government?? Trying to track users??? They would never!
Every website from Facebook to Google has fingerprinted you my guy.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 17d
This appears to be a new tactic though
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 17d
This is a fairly interesting method of fingerprinting. Annoying too, as it hogs the audio channels as experienced by the discoverer
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16d
It's actually an old one.
x00z@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Add it to the pool of a thousand others.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 17d
I've had mixed results with it but there's a few extensions that will send fake and generic data to any site that requests it. In some cases the webpage wouldn't load.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 17d
Unfortunately it can make you look like a bot and if they have a deluxe cloudflare subscription or something similar you might not get past the bot check.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
If only a technology existed that could Solver the flare problem.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 17d
This is an old method of fingerprinting. Used to be common.
0x0@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 17d
Ill bet amazon and others are doing the same and similar
melfie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 17d