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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Rajadog20 5.5 years ago

What? What use would a physical barcode on your screen be to tracking you?

Are you planning on printing out posts and crossing off your name with a marker?? They can already see who posts what, how would this help?

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Broc_Lia 5.5 years ago

I don't think this is an example of fingerprinting, but it could potentially be used to track dissemination of voat screenshots through social media.

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Rajadog20 5.5 years ago

That would be useless as your username shows up when you post..

This fingerprinting would be used to determine the leaker of a screenshot that was classified or under NDA, where the user tries to hide their identity

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Broc_Lia 5.5 years ago

It could be used to link your voat account to other social media accounts. For example, if I consistantly posted voat screencaps to facebook or reddit, they could make a reasonable claim that I controlled the account the screencaps were taken from.

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Rajadog20 5.5 years ago

They already know who you are on facebook..

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Broc_Lia 5.5 years ago

Yes, and with fingerprinting they could link that identity to a voat account.

Which could be a big problem if you live in cuckistan or germany.

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Rajadog20 5.5 years ago

If they have enough access to the site to fingerprint everyones account... they already know who you are, and what you're posting...

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Broc_Lia 5.5 years ago

Not necessarily. Accout creation is locked down currently, but if it opens up again it'd be easy enough to create one with a throwaway email and a VPN.

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