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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Can they actually force a write of a large file to test it or do they look at your specs? If they can actually force a large file writing whether it's 100 mb or 50 gb, 1tb this isn't even really a privacy issue it's just a, tech companies can just step all over you and your ardwae st to make sure your human or to make sure they can track your preferences.
Yeah not sure what large constitutes here, if it's something that you can write to local storage then it's very easy to do.