Yes, you are tracking.
When users “cannot clean” unique tracking identifiers and “cannot control how their information is collected”, Google warned, “this reversed the user choice and is wrong.” Difficult, that the 2019 warning has just returned to follow Google, given his decision to restore digital finger print, the very tracking he was warning.
Proton with the center of intimacy has just released a new report, criticizing the “surrounding spectacular” as Google gives “its advertisers the progress to use digital finger printing to uniquely identify internet users and follow their actions across the network”.
This “surrounding” followed last year’s overthrow for the depreciation of cookies, which has now spread to a promised but still unplanned global demand for users. It also comes as a new report warns that Android phones are “tracing quietly”.
So what is the digital fingertips? As the UK regulator explains, “finger printing involves collecting information parts related to the software or equipping of a device, which, when combined, can uniquely identify a special device and user”, warning that “even conscious users of intimacy will have this difficult to stop”.
Most expect that a global speed will affect the advertising industry as users seek not to be traced, but Google accounts can be traced separately and, as proton explains, “finger printing is effective in identifying and conveying the wide variety of modern equipment entering the internet outside the browser or the application window”.
Data collected from intelligent devices such as TV and keyboards can include “operating system and device specifications” of a device, as well as network identifiers and browsing behaviors of a user. “And unlike cookies,” Proton says, “finger print is difficult to detect and block, making your intimacy more difficult.”
So how to stop it. The browser’s tracking can be stopped by ensuring that the site tracking is intercounted, even if tracking the cookies itself is not. You can also choose for browsers that are more focused on intimacy outside the box and choose private browsing. “In our tests,” says Proton, “Tor Browser and Brave were the best options for avoiding the browser (though these browsers come with their shortcomings).”
If you are Apple user, then safari is fine. Firefox has always been seen as a more private opportunity, but his for him has received a big hit in recent weeks. And if – like most Android and Windows users – you are using chrome, then check your settings and set incognito mode for anything sensitive. But beyond your browser, the proton warns, “preventing the device’s fingers printing is everything but impossible.”
It seems that the only way to stop pressing fingers will be adjustment. The UK data regulator was first to warn that it is not a right tool to follow users online because it is likely to reduce people’s choice and control over how to collect their information, “while his French counterpart warns that” using finger printing for advertising purposes requires the consent of users who should be able to accept “.
According to the proton report: “Although it is difficult to detect or blocked, digital finger printing techniques are not excluded from laws created to protect the privacy of internet users. Although not directly addressed to the EU Directive for Eprivacy, finger printing probably violates GDPR and is likely to be subjected. The Law on California’s Law on Fingerprinting is considered a form of intercourse behavior advertising, which means Google is likely to provide users a way to give up if it will remain in accordance. “
Google says the overthrow reflects a new landscape of the device, with smart devices that enable “a wider range of surfaces in which advertising is served”. The company ensures that “Privacy technologies offer new ways for our partners to succeed in developing platforms … without compromising in user intimacy.”
“The dirt thing about finger print,” Proton says, “is that it is difficult to discover and even harder to avoid”, adding that “browsers that offer extras designed to protect your privacy and prevent tracking actually make the browser more unique, means it is MORE vulnerable to printing the browser’s fingers. “
I have reached Google for any response to the new proton report.