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Can Avast protect us from advertisers tracking online via a battery fingerprint?
« on: August 07, 2015, 01:15:16 AM »
Read: http://www.geek.com/mobile/your-smartphone-battery-lets-advertisers-track-you-online-1630374/
Can we be protected against this form of very accurate precize profiling while the W3C implemented a new specification that allows websites to check power stats, the Battery Status API.

Anyone?

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