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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]
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday August 15 2018, @01:25AM
That's not evidence - that's reasoning. Sound perhaps, but still not evidence. And we are talking about one of the very few tech companies in the world that has actively fought government spying on citizens, rather than bending over backwards to make it easier for them like most do.
And yes - it would be very hard for many to stop them, especially among their target customer base, but it would be very easy for them to be exposed, and for now at least they seem to be embracing the privacy thing as a marketing tool.