AI Security
AliExpress and Web Audio fingerprinting: why your Bluetooth cuts out, and what actually blocks it
Open AliExpress and the music on your phone stops. Chasing that symptom led to a device-identification routine running through the Web Audio API. No microphone is involved. Here is the mechanism from primary sources, and the countermeasures that genuinely work, for individuals and for IT departments.
2026-08-23Ryuta Hamamoto
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