I laugh at your spying attempts from my HD-equipped laptop, ...
I laugh at your spying attempts from my cURL e-mail service that I use instead of a web browser.
Or mine where the entire browser profile is on a ramdisk.
Higher IO latencies in HDs might actually make this attack easier - more contention means more bits of data.
I got $HOME in a huge HDD because it was cheaper. I guess we belong to the cool kids club now?
The paper (https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf) cites two earlier papers (from 2014 and 2017) that did the same for HDDs.