Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by ekianjo on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:37AM (#19839251)

> Browser plugins really need to go away. If it's not implementable normally then it shouldn't be on the web. In my opinion at least.

So no more ad blockers?

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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by saagarjha on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:47AM (#19839331)

There’s a difference between plugins and extensions. Plugins add support for new types of media (think Flash, Java) while extensions are your adblockers and userscripts.

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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by Spivak on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:54AM (#19839979)

Plugins also provide support for new video codecs. Plugins are definitely the wrong place for it but I would be so happy to see codecs factored out of individual browsers.

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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by AgentME on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:10PM (#19844857)

That would make the list of supported video codecs a better fingerprinting mechanism.

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