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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by tptacek on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:09AM (#19838623)
Probably not; that task is equivalent to coordinating between browser vendors to make their software behave in every way identically, and these are generally radically different pieces of software.
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by saagarjha on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:49AM (#19838901)
Ideally every browser implements web standards the same and looks identical…
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by tptacek on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:40AM (#19839807)
You can't even get TCP/IP implemented consistently, which is why we can passively identify operating systems just by observing packets. What hope do you have of getting browsers to be indistinguishable?
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by saagarjha on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:57PM (#19852895)
Practically, not much. Ideally, though…
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by tptacek on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:35PM (#19853203)
This is the problem with anti-fingerprinting. It's a genuinely hard problem, not in the "it takes a lot of code and a lot of will to get it done" sense, but in an "it's unclear what computer science has to say about this problem right now" sense. It's up there with DRM/antimalware (two sides of the same coin).
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