
Browser Fingerprinting on Adult Sites: What I Found After 130 Blacklight Scans
I'm a developer who's been running Blacklight privacy scans on adult websites. Not for moral reasons — for data. Over three months, I scanned 130 sites across 12 categories. Here's what I found about browser fingerprinting specifically, and why it matters more than tracker counts. The Setup Blacklight is The Markup's open-source inspection tool. It loads a URL in a headless browser and monitors for: Ad trackers (third-party scripts loading from known advertising domains) Third-party cookies (cookies set by domains other than the one you're visiting) Canvas fingerprinting (JavaScript that reads canvas rendering output to identify your device) Session recording (scripts from services like Hotjar/FullStory that replay user sessions) Keystroke capture (scripts that log keyboard input) Evading cookie blockers (techniques to set tracking data despite browser protections) I ran this on 130 adult sites. Here's the fingerprinting data. Fingerprinting Detection Results Out of 130 sites scanned,
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