gizmodo Your Graphics Card Can Be Tracked

[UltraMega]

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Computer researchers have discovered a new, experimental way to track you across the internet using information culled from your computer or phone’s graphics processing unit.

 

In a recent paper, the researchers—who hail from universities in Israel, Australia, and France—unveiled a unique device “fingerprinting” strategy that uses the properties of each user’s GPU stack to create distinct, trackable profiles.

Your Graphics Card Can Be Used to Track Your Movements on the Web, Researchers Find

GIZMODO.COM

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A research team has discovered that a GPU can be fingerprinted, thus transforming it into a web tracker that can monitor computer users.

 

Not great news. 

Edited February 1, 2022 by UltraMega

[Diffident]

In Firefox's about:config set webgl.disabled to true.  Problem solved.

[pio]

On 01/02/2022 at 14:51, Diffident said:

In Firefox's about:config set webgl.disabled to true.  Problem solved.

Got one of those tricks handy for Brave?

 

At the article - Sigh.  This is just getting tiresome at this point.

[Diffident]

12 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Got one of those tricks handy for Brave?

 

At the article - Sigh.  This is just getting tiresome at this point.

Brave is based on Chromium, you might be able to check in about:flags and search for "webgl".  I don't know if it's configurable or not.  Nothing is as configurable as Firefox.