The article explains how browser fingerprinting has replaced third-party cookies as the dominant method for tracking users online, persisting across incognito mode, VPNs, and device switches. It warns that this technique enables deep surveillance by collecting behavioral data that can be sold to the highest bidder, with governments and corporations both as potential customers.
Background
With major browsers phasing out third-party cookies, advertisers and trackers have shifted to browser fingerprinting techniques that identify users through unique combinations of hardware and software characteristics.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 12, 2026 at 05:05 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10