TIL that you can get much lower online prices if you use a local library computer. Another reason to hate retailers.
Lora Kelley took a trip to the New York Public Library for us and compared prices against a personal iPhone. The results? A box of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and a pack of toilet paper were nearly 20% cheaper on the library desktop.
It’s not the library, it’s the cache you never clear. She could have done this just as easily at home on a browser with a private window she hadn’t signed into.
With the same IP, CPU, GPU, and networkcard??
Easily fingerprintable
Easily obfuscated, but also just clearing cache or using private browsing will more likely than not work.
I tried using waterfox and librewolf i think.
Every click on a new site was 5 capchas, its horrendously unusable, since probably they assume that all obfuscated user agent and other data are bots
I tried LibreWolf. It was such a bad experience.
It’s a shame that the Internet is so bad that the browser has to go to such extreme lengths to give you any privacy that it makes the experience awful.
It definitely isn’t as graceful in the every day experience, but keeping a profile with resist fingerprinting disabled has helped the few times I need to get past turnstiles and whatnot that otherwise loop
It really is a shame that it’s come to this rock paper scissors war between the server’s usage, the user’s experience, and privacy. Currently privacy is what has been cut in favor of the other two. You have to work to maintain privacy now
Unless you’re running a virtual GPU (and changing it often enough to remain anonymous), tracking pixels are pretty difficult to obfuscate (the exact thermal environment your PC is in will even effect timing).
And thanks to big tech this state of the art tracking is on essentially every website.
Clearing site data/private mode is a way to ask nicely that websites don’t track you, but user intention hasn’t been respected for around 3 decades by now.
I would like to know how you plan to get the same ip, cpu, gpu and network card into her iphone.
It’s also using an iPhone instead of a desktop PC. Retailers think all iPhone users are rich (or at least less price-sensitive).
Cache != Cookies