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AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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No way! The Chinese government?? Trying to track users??? They would never!
Every website from Facebook to Google has fingerprinted you my guy.
This appears to be a new tactic though
This is a fairly interesting method of fingerprinting. Annoying too, as it hogs the audio channels as experienced by the discoverer