Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The reasons they want to do this sound horrible, and I wouldn’t want to use any such thing Google puts out, but I was thinking the other day about how something like this might be useful for enhancing privacy by preventing websites fingerprinting you. Think something like an Invidious server, except for any arbitrary website instead of only youtube; you can indirectly interact with javascript features, maximize the browser to fill your whole monitor revealing its resolution, but the end server will never know you are doing this stuff because all they see is the way your middleman server is configured (which will be as generic as possible).
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
So, Tor with fewer steps.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Afaik even Tor can be vulnerable to some kinds of fingerprinting, if javascript is turned on, which is required to use some websites, I’m thinking of this as something that could be used in conjunction with Tor
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
You’d be surprised how few websites actually require third-party JS. I’ve been using NoScript for years, and I’ll allow the first-party JS to read something, but the other 15 domains can go fuck themselves if I can’t read the article without totally opening up my computer to trackers.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t like the thought of first-party javascript being able to fingerprint me either though