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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WokieDokie 5.5 years ago

I'm not retarded enough to log into Voat on a mobile device, ever

honest question: why is it bad to log in with the phone ?

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Nosfewratsjews 5.5 years ago

Put simply, a computer can still be (somewhat) hardened.

A phone is a device you pay money for the privilege of a company selling every piece of data it can harvest by spying on you. Government backdoors are built right into phones from the ground up.

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WokieDokie 5.5 years ago

ok. thx for the info.

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