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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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