A team of researchers from French, Israeli, and Australian universities has explored the possibility of using people’s GPUs to create unique fingerprints and use them for persistent web tracking. The researchers found that their technique can boost the median tracking duration to 67% compared to current state-of-the-art methods. The next-gen GPU APIs currently in development, most notably WebGPU, features compute shaders which come in addition to the existing graphics pipeline. As such, the upcoming API may introduce even more ways to fingerprint internet users too.”]