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		hollowturtle 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down... what is contained in the latest js standard that does let you collect fine grained information of your users without their consent? web apis that have to deal with sensitive data all requires explicit user confirmation to be used

scarface_74 11 months ago [–]

The more access to your system that a web page has, the better it can fingerprint you. All of those ApIs aren’t going to be opt in

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