Why does Voat appear to have fingerprinting built into the page render that scrolls with the screen? What purpose would this serve other than tracking screenshots to user ID's and/or sessions?

Why does Voat appear to have fingerprinting built into the page render that scrolls with the screen? What purpose would this serve other than tracking screenshots to user ID's and/or sessions? (catbox.moe)

submitted 5.5 years ago by Nosfewratsjews

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SandHog 5.5 years ago

Is it just on Voat or is your device (phone?) doing it on other sites too?

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Nosfewratsjews 5.5 years ago

Only on Voat. I'm not retarded enough to log into Voat on a mobile device, ever. Does the same thing on a Linux system and a Windows system. Randomly injects into the middle of the page on some posts, randomly injects on the outside bars on main pages.

I've observed this for quite some time. Ironically, I first noticed it when the warrant canary died - though it could have been there before that.

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SandHog 5.5 years ago

Huh, no idea. I don't see them when I screenshot stuff.

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Nosfewratsjews 5.5 years ago

It's not on all pages and not frequently that it renders. I can only see it in nightmode and with brightness and contrast adjusted.

The screenshot shows it clear as day.

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SandHog 5.5 years ago

Yeah, I can see it in your image but I've never seen them on anything that I've taken a screen shot of. Can you find a page where it is reproducible?

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Nosfewratsjews 5.5 years ago

It's no longer visible on the page I screencapped it from, so it would appear to be dynamic.

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