[Info-vax] The Student System

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-07 20:14, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

There is a lot of fingerprinting going on. Even when you don't allow 
javascript.

   Johnny