https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~kvaniea/teaching/ece458/S2026/activities/panopticlick/index.html Deadline: 18 July Your web browser provides lots of facts to webpages and to JavaScript as part of normal operations. These facts are helpful in that they let pages properly adapt content to match the capabilities of the computer and monitor they are on. But they can also be used to uniquely fingerprint and track users. In this activity you will be looking at the types of information visible Steps Visit the Cover Your Tracks website using your normal web browser using your normal settings. Click “Test Your Browser”. Make sure to scroll down on the results page to see all the different types of data the site was able to collect about your browser. Try visiting the page again using a privacy-preserving mode like Private Browsing, or Incognito. Try visiting with a different browser than your normal one. Brave Chrome - Advertising friendly Firefox - Auto blocks advertising Reflection questions What detected information most supprised you. Learn more Panopticlick Your browser has ad tech’s fingerprints all over it, but there’s a clean-up squad in town - News article opinion piece talking about how effective Chrome Incognito is or isn’t. Also suggests some alternatives. Hugo en-us kami.vaniea@uwaterloo.ca (Kami Vaniea) kami.vaniea@uwaterloo.ca (Kami Vaniea)