Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple browser instances are used

Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows... by zzzcpan on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @10:05AM (#13643917)

Very few websites, maybe 1 out of 100, most offenders are just rendering content in the browser for some reason. Although even bigger offenders are not individuals, but companies, outright blocking access to client's websites without javascript. So far it's mostly Cloudflare, I think most people using the web without javascript hate them the most, hopefully the trend won't continue.

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Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows... by OJFord on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @10:39AM (#13644235)

Cloudflare blocks access to sites behind it to users with JS enabled? Even if there's no JS on the site?

1. Is there anything the site owner can do to turn that off?

2. Is it because they inject some kind of DDoS prevention/tracking thing? This suggests crawlers load JS, which I wouldn't have necessarily assumed.

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Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:49PM (#13648046)

cloudflare can whitelist crawlers like google. The fact it blocks other automatic robots is more of a feature than a flaw.

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Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows... by OJFord on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @07:27PM (#13648676)

Requiring visitors to have JS enabled isn't (a very good) feature.

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