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Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by ndotb to c/security
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Yeah, uh.... at least ublock's EasyPrivacy list catches most of them

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[–] jim 4 points 2 years ago

TIL that some websites use JS to scan for open ports on localhost to fingerprint users. Jeez...