GoKawiil - Tech News

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Onionspector – now let's see what The Onion knows about you (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-06 | get Web Application Security Andrew Hoffman book → | tags: onionspector, onion services, tor

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Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-24 | get Anker Soundcore Space One multipoint bluetooth headphones → | tags: aliexpress, browser fingerprinting, inaudible sounds

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AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device (techspot.com)

2026-08-23 | by Skye Jacobs | get Sony WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones → | tags: aliexpress, web audio api, alibaba

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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: aliexpress, webaudio, bluetooth

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Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tomasz Janusz | tags: privacy thing, fingerprinting, google chrome

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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over (theverge.com)

2026-07-20 | by Emma Roth | tags: sony music entertainment, uadio, ai music generator

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What any website can see about you (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | get Privacy Screen Filter → | tags: browser fingerprinting, ip address, regional database

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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: ios, apple, fingerprinting

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Apple kicks off new ‘Privacy on iPhone’ campaign promoting Safari [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-04 | by Chance Miller | get Apple Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: safari, apple, privacy

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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get WebGL Fingerprint Blocker → | tags: cloudflare, turnstile, webgl

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FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | tags: frost, opfs, ssd

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Researchers found a way to spy on your browsing by watching your SSD's activity (techspot.com)

2026-05-28 | get SSD Monitoring Tool → | tags: frost, opfs, ssd

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I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-16 | tags: applovin, ad-mediation, device fingerprinting

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The best secure browsers for privacy in 2026: Expert tested (zdnet.com)

2026-05-14 | by Charlie Osborne | get Mozilla Firefox Quantum → | tags: brave, chromium, tor

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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | by Matt Wheeler | get Web Developer Toolbox → | tags: ip-api.com, mozilla, font fingerprinting

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Multiplexed magnetic resonance imaging (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Li | tags: magnetic resonance imaging, magnet resonance fingerprinting, magn reson susceptibility

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How the Heck does Shazam work? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | by Shri Khalpada | get Shazam App for Music Recognition → | tags: shazam, audio fingerprinting, spectrogram

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Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get AI Writing Style Analyzer → | tags: ai models, fingerprinting, writing styles

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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | get Cloudflare Workers Developer Kit → | tags: cloudflare, turnstile, react

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ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | get Cloudflare Workers Developer Kit → | tags: cloudflare, turnstile, chatgpt

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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-22 | by Kevin Boone | get Fingerprint ID → | tags: browser, cookies, fingerprinting

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Firefox expands fingerprint protections (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-11 | by Tom Ritter | get Fingerprint Scanner → | tags: browsing, defenses, fingerprinting

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Firefox Expands Fingerprint Protections (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-11 | by Tom Ritter | get Fingerprint Protection → | tags: browsing, defenses, fingerprinting

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Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-11-10 | get FingerprintGuard → | tags: browser, fingerprinting, firefox

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Enable This iOS 26 Privacy Feature to Make It Harder for Others to Track You (cnet.com)

2025-10-31 | by See Full Bio | get iPhone → | tags: data, digital, fingerprinting

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With iOS 26, Safari will counter one of the web’s most invasive tracking methods (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Marcus Mendes | get iPhone → | tags: advanced, browsing, fingerprinting

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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: browser, browsing, fingerprinting

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Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Department Of Computer Science | get computer monitor → | tags: browser, computer, fingerprinting

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Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Department Of Computer Science | get computer monitor → | tags: browser, computer, fingerprinting