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Discussion on: How the Web Audio API is used for browser fingerprinting

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It's hard to see this as anything but "tracking for users that don't want to be tracked". The privacy implications of being able to uniquely identify browsers anonymously is precisely why GDPR was created. Adherence to GDPR is a good thing but this library is an exploit of it. Given others' responses it seems I'm not alone. I think it's a matter of time before privacy conscious browsers thwart this. Being transparent about this technology is better than not being transparent about it, so thanks for that I guess, but I just can't put FingerprintJS in my good books.