Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals’ anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?
if they work reliably these tracking techniques will become pervasive across the internet.
this is one of those things where the more you anonymise your data the more identifiable it is compared to everyone else’s non anonymous data.
see above
yeah…
The majority of people will sacrifice security for convenience, I guess we all know that’s a given.
For 2 at least if enough users behave ‘adversely’ in the same way, they become less distinguishable from one another within that subset.
Interesting to see how such an arms race pans out.
Yeah but that is still pretty identifiable, the same way fingerprinting works pretty well for finding a user with a specific screen resolution, os, fonts, etc that already makes a specifically small subset of users that you can start to find patterns and identify individuals. The tiny subset of users who might be tempted to go about anonymising inputs is already thinning the field huuugely
I did this for years back when i was being all considerate and junk. Privacy was not a motivator.
I’ve begrudgingly accepted that the greater war in this regard is long since lost, but I’m happy to win the small battles today. Unfettered internet access. Ad free media. VPNs, adblockers etc etc
It helps that I’m a fairly dull person to begin with. I’ll probably be dust by the time it gets too bad to tolerate.