Browser fingerprinting is where JavaScript or other means are used to scrape uniquely identifying information from the browser metadata and functions such as how it draws a canvas object. In it's latest release Apple will defeat browser fingerprinting by making all Mac users look alike to advertisers and websites that use fingerprinting to track users. Apple can afford to do this as it doesn't have skin in the online advertising game.
[This is likely only going to be for the Safari browser. - Ed]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)
Will it improve the actual experience? The only ads with a sufficiently universal appeal are from porn and viagra right? How many people want more of that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @03:09PM
Irrelevant. I know the url for pornhub by heart. How will advertizing help here?