Alibaba got caught doing some invasive fingerprinting that actually interrupted a user's workflow. (Normally they're more stealthy than that.) https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
I did a quick write-up about Firefox's efforts (and success) neutering this fingerprinting vector https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html
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