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Is this for real? DuckDuckGo has grown in popularity primarily on its claim: We don't track you. Is this no longer true?
DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors
DuckDuckGo is using the Canvas DOMRect API on their search engine. Canvas is used to make unique geometry measurements on target browsers, and DOMRect API uses rectangles. This can be verified with the CanvasBlocker Firefox add-on by Korbinian Kapsner. DDG has recently been redirecting some website navigations to cute pictures with remarks about their privacy promises. The organization is now seeking to expand their Internet presence. DDG are without question data brokers, and commercial websites that make promises like DDG does will not survive for long if they actually keep them.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @09:36PM
Offloading your work to the client is what everybody does today, sneaky or not, because it's saving clocks on your server that go right into your client's electricity bill. You're basically fucking your clients trice: They foot the bill for power consumption, they get tracked and by virtue of having to enable scripting to be abused by your site, they also open themselves up for a variety of script-weaponized exploits (so basically all of them at this point).