Comment by dylan604
5 months ago
Extended to add don’t use websites without blockers. If they are willing to track via app, why would we think they would not track via browser?
5 months ago
Extended to add don’t use websites without blockers. If they are willing to track via app, why would we think they would not track via browser?
The browser has less access to your system, and usually only if you give a specific website permission to use these features. Mobile operating systems are slowly changing that though.
Have you looked at the latest JS standards?
(and if you haven't... check out the APIs available to the developers/owners of all the websites you browse: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API )
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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
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At least on android the browser is limited by the android permission system, i.e. if you dont give browser GPS permissionit cannot give pages dito. In addition the browser will ask if you want to grant an app access to something like positioning data.
Furthermore, it is hard for a web page to run in background and receive user data.