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Fingerprints are the new cookies
A developer essay argues that browser fingerprinting has replaced cookies as the dominant way websites track users online. Unlike cookies, fingerprints can identify people without consent prompts or stored files, drawing renewed attention to privacy gaps in current regulation. The piece is being widely read and shared among developers and privacy-minded readers.
Why now: Growing concern over tracking methods that bypass cookie consent rules
Evidence
- Fingerprints Are the New Cookies · royfish · 695
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