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: 2) by driverless on Wednesday August 15 2018, @01:10AM
Don't they already all look alike? Whenever I see a latte-sipping hipster kitted out with iEverything-you-can-buy I immediately know, "Apple user".