Comment by henriquez
4 years ago
Fun fact: for quite a long time Chrome skipped over the user permission step in the Web MIDI spec, always allowing access and silently giving ad networks a list of connected USB MIDI devices with no user consent:
https://www.obsessivefacts.com/blog/2018-10-20-chrome-allows...
Here's what appeared on porn site xhamster.com once newer versions of Chromium got around to implementing the permission check (SFW-ish):
https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-ja...
Guessing it was for additional browser fingerprinting.
That seems a bit far fetched.
Not sure why that's more odd than other crazy fingerprinting techniques actually in use. Keep in mind no midi devices would need to be present for fingerprinting. Different failure modes, etc.
Especially in the porn industry where the end users are likely using incognito mode or a VPN.
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Why? All kinds of details are already being used for fingerprinting
If this pun was intended, I'm phoning the World Court.
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