Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by viseztrance on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:58AM (#19838573)

There are SaSS companies that have their entire business model around creating databases of fingerprints - for example determining bots. These scripts track you over multiple websites and are very well concealed, so you won't find them on any ad blocker blacklist.

Also, living in the EU won't protect you from getting fingerprinted.

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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by user17843 on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:59AM (#19838579)

why do the studies referenced in the above study only show a very low <1% prevalence? Do they omitt the "good fingerprinters"?

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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by viseztrance on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:12AM (#19838642)

I don't think so. A good fingerprinter will use a honeypot - an easy to detect fingerpriting script in addition to the real one.

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