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This is an old method of fingerprinting. Used to be common.
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
It's actually an old one.
Add it to the pool of a thousand others.
He said the scripts built a WebAudio graph that introduced a sawtooth oscillator to generate a waveform, an analyzer to measure the result after the waveform passes through a browser’s audio implementation, and a script to read the associated frequency data.
This is a fairly interesting method of fingerprinting. Annoying too, as it hogs the audio channels as experienced by the discoverer
Ill bet amazon and others are doing the same and similar
I've had mixed results with it but there's a few extensions that will send fake and generic data to any site that requests it. In some cases the webpage wouldn't load.
Unfortunately it can make you look like a bot and if they have a deluxe cloudflare subscription or something similar you might not get past the bot check.
If only a technology existed that could Solver the flare problem.
