AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

AliExpress's homepage silently runs two WebAudio fingerprinting scripts that kept a user's multipoint Bluetooth headphones from switching audio to their phone. The scripts, collina.js and fireyejs.js, create zero-gain audio graphs connected to the system destination, which browsers process even when muted. Blocking them with uBlock Origin restored normal headphone behavior.

Perhaps if AliExpress wasn't blocking my music I never would've looked into what the site was doing.

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2026-08-20