#DearLazyWeb,

Are there any #Tor or #BrowserFingerprinting or traffic fingerprinting people in my wider network that have read the #MaybeNot paper?

How do these defenses relate to the work that Tor itself does to protect from traffic analysis? Would they be enough to prevent the sort of timing attacks that the wiki describes on the TorPlusVPN page?

Does anyone have more information on the research that that wiki page is referencing?

I am just diving into this topic, so be gentle please.

It's easy to assume a VPN keeps you private, but they're not effective against the most prevalent form of cross-site tracking: Browser Fingerprinting.

Our latest video covers what browser fingerprinting is in detail and what you can do to protect yourself from trackers, plus we spoke with @ruihildt from @mullvadnet for more info on what the top privacy browsers are doing about this problem.

https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/09/12/what-is-browser-fingerprinting-and-how-to-stop-it/

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_50cBtSjyQ
 https://neat.tube/w/2TQztsQGZ6ZPiJVSUtSDHa

#BrowserFingerprinting #MullvadBrowser #TorBrowser #BrowserFingerprint #AmIUnique #Fingerprinting #Privacy #Chrome #Firefox #PrivacyGuides #Video

Last Friday @privacyguides released its second episode this year of This Week in Privacy! 🎤🔒✨

You can now watch it from our PeerTube instance!

Lots of very important topics being discussed in there: https://neat.tube/w/4ZCEWBfujAqHRRABNBhjB9

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #BrowserFingerprinting

Thinks: Anyone yet seen Advertising inside a CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA??

"Choose the brand that mows your lawn, picks up the kids from school, gets rid of unwanted facial hair, gets rid of embarrassing age spots, delivers the pizza"

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#browserfingerprinting

'The First Early Evidence of
the Use of Browser Fingerprinting for Online Tracking'

https://engineering.jhu.edu/news/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting/

Scientific study finds that #adtech IS using browser #fingerprinting to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking #cookies and #trackers 😒

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

They call on browser makers to do more. @jon is your team putting effort into this area?

@johnnyryan I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the #RTB system and #databrokers 🙏

#browserfingerprinting #surveillancecapitalism
#privacy

Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

#HackerNews #WebTracking #BrowserFingerprinting #Privacy #DigitalSecurity #CyberAwareness