Learn Privacy
Stuart has written this fantastic concise practical guide to privacy for developers and designers. A must-read!
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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog
How browser fingerprinting works and what you can do about it (if you use Firefox).
supercookie • workwise
Favicons are snitches.
Accessibility Events | CSS-Tricks
If you’re using Apple’s VoiceOver, both your phone and your computer will broadcast your assumed disability to the entire internet, unless and until you specifically tell it to stop.
Apple’s new feature a step towards digital apartheid - Axess Lab
I also discussed this accessibility events feature with my friend who is a screen reader user herself. She said it feels like it’s a first step towards a well-meant digital apartheid.
So We Got Tracked Anyway
Even using a strict cookie policy won’t help when Facebook and Google are using TLS to fingerprint users. Time to get more paranoid:
HTTPS session identifiers can be disabled in Mozilla products manually by setting ‘security.ssl.disablesessionidentifiers’ in about:config.
Your Social Media Fingerprint
Clever! By exploiting the redirect pattern that most social networks use for logging in, and assuming that site’s favicon isn’t stored in a CDN, it’s possible to figure out whether someone is logged into that site.
Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block - ProPublica
Well, thanks to the ass-hattery of AddThis, the use case of your site’s visitors switching off JavaScript for (legitimate) security reasons just became a lot more plausible.
But you’re using JavaScript as an enhancement, right? You’re not relying on it for core tasks, right?