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cm0002@lemdro.id to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

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cm0002@lemdro.id to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago
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    This is borderline virus that eats up user ssd write cycle

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    OPFS isn’t in RAM and size limited? That’s crazy! It’s almost as if the idea was to give access to as much data as possible in order to track users.

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