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Matt Callaghan

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AliExpress audio fingerprinting discovery

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Latest: AliExpress discovered using audio fingerprinting to track users

Developer Matt Callaghan discovered that AliExpress uses audio fingerprinting to track users by utilizing the Web Audio API. The technique involves generating a silent sawtooth wave through a gain stage set to zero, allo