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Exclusive Wekly Patroncast - Episode 14 - New Desktop
🕑 Added 2021-02-15 16:51:33 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
Here is episode 14 of your exclusive Patroncast!
In this one, I talk about:
- Favicons. Weird, I know, but apparently, you can now use these to track users around the internet, even if they use a VPN, Private Mode, or tracker blockers.
- AMD hiring "Linux people", and what it means for day one AMD hardware support, and maybe software development from them on Linux
- My Future New Desktop, probably from Slimbook, and the reasons why I'm going to change what I currently use for a pre-built, powerful device.
I hope you enjoy!
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The Linux Experiment
Yeah, the only thing preventing me from going AMD is using Davinci Resolve, which doesn't work well with AMD drivers. I hope other browsers implement a solution to stop this "favicon tracking". I don't think clearing the cache would work, as the request has already been made to the server, and so they already have the fingerprint, that they can compare with other sites?
The Linux Experiment
Totally :)
Hello Nick. Thank you for these interesting news bits. In the distant future when my computer breaks down, I'll choose an AMD for CPU and GPU for sure. Web tracking remains disturbing and frustrating to deal with... I have found and read the article on the favicon tracking. It is suggested that Firefox is currently not vulnerable, because it does not use the favicon cache for whatever reason (is it a bug? is it a feature?). The research article itself mentions Brave is working on a solution and should clear the favicon cache when deleting the browser history. However, on GitHub there also is another solution to cache favicons on demand. I don't know if this has been implemented. https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/6435 I don't know about other browsers. Keep up the good work.
I see I made a good suggestion on twitter for the Slimbook ;)
