Some Websites Track You Via Sound; How To Protect Yourself
The popular online shopping platform AliExpress has been identified using background audio processing techniques to monitor user activity and create hardware profiles. The mechanism keeps an audio stream active in the browser even when the volume is muted, effectively building an accurate device fingerprint of the visitor’s machine. The behavior was uncovered by a software developer experiencing connectivity issues with multipoint Bluetooth headphones. The device failed to switch between a […]
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