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

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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