[Info-vax] The Student System

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-11-07, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2023-11-06 14:30, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> I watch Youtube anonymously in private browsing mode, so there's no
>> browsing history for it to work with.
>
> While I'm sometimes surprised by the amount of belief people have in 
> what Google might be doing (it's sometimes pretty far from reality), 
> sometimes I get surprised in the other direction as well. Like now.
> Browsing in anonymous mode is not as anonymous as you might think. There 
> is a lot of information that can be extracted out, which can still be 
> used to get some pretty good idea of tracking of users. Sure, it's less 
> precise than what can be done in non-anonymous mode, but it's far from zero.
>

They can do loose association based on the IP address the request is
coming from (assuming CGNAT or similar is not in use).

They can do some generic browser fingerprinting (depending on what
Javascript you allow to run and on whether the browser is lying to the
website.)

They cannot get to information that exists in the browser outside of
the private session.

Is there something else they can get access to ?

Simon.

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