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23 resources
Does a VPN Make You Private?
How VPN privacy works, who can see your traffic, and why accounts and browser fingerprints can still connect your visits. Explore an interactive visibility map.
Guide
Oct 15, 2026
What is Extension Fingerprinting?
How websites detect extensions, combine their traces into a fingerprint, infer sensitive interests, and how browser protections differ.
Guide
Oct 2, 2026
What Is a Global Device Identifier?
How Windows GDID, Apple Hardware UUID, and account-linked identifiers create durable identity below the browser.
Guide
Sep 24, 2026
What Is Hardware and Sensor Fingerprinting?
How motion, audio, and environmental sensors can identify hardware, behavior, routines, and physical context.
Guide
Sep 24, 2026
What Is Chrome Fingerprinting? A Technical Guide
A layer-by-layer examination of Chrome fingerprinting surfaces, recognition boundaries, Incognito, network context, and all fourteen public evidence captures.
Guide
Sep 10, 2026
Is Google Chrome Private?
Is Google Chrome private? Review what websites can track, what Incognito hides, how Google accounts connect activity, and our browser fingerprinting test results.
Evaluation
Sep 7, 2026
ICE is Researching an AI Assistant to Interface with Billions of Records
Overregulation often leads to circumvention. This is a broad concern surrounding privacy minimums in the United States. If we continue to raise privacy standards, the worry is that companies that depend on data extraction will become more aggressive, invasive, and creative in their collection methods. This was largely the case when data aggregators and the advertising industry realized cookies were an easy signal to reject, and they began investing heavily in browser fingerprinting technology.
News
Aug 21, 2026
What is Flock, and Why Are There Cameras All Over My City?
Flock Safety has put up more than 100,000 Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) across the United States. These ALPRs read and log every license plate that passes it, communicating the information it collects to local law-enforcement agencies and connected databases, often using AI to enforce traffic laws, find stolen vehicles, or locate individuals. In large cities, it seems that these cameras are at every intersection. There are other companies like Genetec and Axis, with Flock being the m
News
Jun 26, 2026
Companies Are Ignoring Your Opt-Out and Google is Enabling Them - Potentially $5.8B in Liability
Cookie consent banners and GPC signals are supposed to stop companies from collecting and selling your data. A new audit finds most don’t work. An audit conducted by webXray shows that Google, Microsoft, and Meta are ignoring legally binding “reject cookies” and “opt-out” buttons as well as Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. The audit visited 7,634 popular websites with and without the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal enabled. GPC is not a browser extension or a third-party tool. It
News
Apr 16, 2026
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data.
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, there's no reason to be collecting data that can be used to identify a user across the web if they're not signed in to your service. The harm of companies like Experian or LinkedIn being able to correlate all of your web traffic back to you is not
News
Apr 6, 2026
Browser Fingerprinting Is the Ad Industry's Response to Your Privacy Settings
Why the ad industry replaced cookies with something you can't block In 2018, GDPR became enforceable. In the years that followed, state privacy laws and the widespread adoption of ad blockers gave ordinary users a meaningful way to opt out of data collection for the first time. For the ad-tech industry, this was an existential problem. Their business model depends on extracting behavioral data from web traffic and turning it into user-profiles that drive clicks, place ads, and convert sales. A
News
Apr 2, 2026
Online Privacy Checklist for Teams
A free 13-question self-assessment of browser profiles, VPN use, and account separation. Private answers, practical next steps, and a local PDF; no device scan.
Guide
What Are Navigator Properties in Browser Fingerprinting?
How standard browser APIs expose platform, hardware, and language details by default.
Guide
What Is Audio Fingerprinting?
How offline audio processing reveals subtle implementation differences across browsers and devices.
Guide
What Is Browser Fingerprinting?
Learning hub: how multi-layer browser profiles are built, why VPNs and cookie clearing aren't enough to stop it, and a full directory of the technical guides below.
Guide
What Is Canvas Fingerprinting?
How hidden drawing tests turn rendering quirks into a stable browser identifier.
Guide
What Is Font Fingerprinting?
How text measurement and glyph rendering reveal installed fonts and software footprints.
Guide
What Is HTTP Header Fingerprinting?
How request metadata, client hints, and header patterns reveal more than most users expect.
Guide
What Is Screen and Viewport Fingerprinting?
How resolution, pixel ratio, and browser chrome measurements help classify a device.
Guide
What Is TCP/IP Fingerprinting?
How low-level packet defaults and network-stack behavior can classify the client beneath the browser.
Guide
What Is Timezone and Locale Fingerprinting?
How language order, timezone, and Intl settings expose regional configuration.
Guide
What Is TLS Fingerprinting?
How JA3 and JA4 use an HTTPS handshake to identify a client before the page loads.
Guide
What Is WebGL Fingerprinting?
How graphics APIs expose GPU, driver, and rendering behavior that can help identify a browser.
Guide