Its because he's just been sticking his name and plated gold onto crap for decades. His brand is all he has, but someone doesn't seem to realise how radioactive it is.
Like hell am I, a european, flying into DJT. I'd rather fly through JFK and catch clap from a toilet seat.
Yeah we used to do things like messing with your history, messing with local storage, messing with your browser cache, messing around with flash and other exploitable plugins.
I can make you download a specific favicon and ID you that way.
Also, most peoples browsers are actually quite unique in terms of fingerprint. My browser, for example, is unique among the 4.8M fingerprints in their database.
In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called "supercookies" that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity
We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.
Not saying its a "supercookie" but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches
I did, I've deleted my habitual bookmark and put lemmy in the same place on the bar.
But the volume of discourse isn't quite here yet.
But I do like not being banned (twice, the second time an experiment to determine if it was automated, it was) for suggesting Peter Thiel should be turned into soup.
To the point that I'm gonna get it printed on a T-shirt.
lots of things are legally mandated without any good evidence.
Lots of things legally mandated in the past are now unconscionable or illegal now.