Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows...
by dreamcompiler on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:32PM
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Logging in to the Guest account on OSX accomplishes what you want, no?
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Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows...
by thinkling on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @07:18PM
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Some of the fingerprinting involves not the user-controlled configuration of the machine, but hardware-related aspects like the canvas fingerprinting which looks at pixel level details of a small rendered figure. That combined with IP address will go a long way.
Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows...
by rsync on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @09:13PM
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"Logging in to the Guest account on OSX accomplishes what you want, no?"
No ...
That is, unless I can easily script the destruction and recreation of the guest account, and automated install and configuration of my chrome setup ...
The idea here is that I set up chrome just how I want it and deploy and redeploy that "container" over and over - destroying it and recreating it after each use. Possibly with multiple instances running simultaneously ...
Re:Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple brows...
by dreamcompiler on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:56PM
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When a Guest logs out, any files they created are destroyed, including cookies and browser histories. But I don't know of a way to have multiple instances running sumultaneously.