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FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

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Solution

In Firefox you can disable the Web Audio API "AudioContext" to prevent this.

In "about:config", search for "dom.webaudio.enabled", and set it to "false".

To make sure it's properly disabled check the "AudioContext" section on https://www.deviceinfo.me

There's also browser extensions that exist to disable the API, but using the setting directly in Firefox is all that's needed.

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