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Difference between FingerprintingInvasive and FingerprintingGeneral #227

Closed ghostwords closed 4 years ago

ghostwords commented 4 years ago

What makes something FingerprintingInvasive as opposed to FingerprintingGeneral? Apologies if this is already documented somewhere.

disconnectme commented 4 years ago

Policy and definitions are here. https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection#categories-of-trackers

We differentiate between two sub-categories of fingerprinters: A tracker may be classified as a general fingerprinter if it uses browser or device features or properties in unintended ways to identify and track a particular user or device. A tracker may be classified as an invasive fingerprinter if it uses an API to extract information about a particular user’s computing environment when the API was not designed to expose such information.

ghostwords commented 4 years ago

Got it, thank you! What's the rationale behind making this distinction?

disconnectme commented 4 years ago

https://blog.disconnect.me/our-new-approach-to-address-the-rise-of-fingerprinting/