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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by alkonaut on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:30PM (#19844084)
What plug-ins I have shouldn’t concern the server on the other end. Why does is it transferred?

Canvases should never be readable by the other end without explicit permission. Basically transmitting anything rendered to a canvas should be equivalent to using my web camera from an integrity standpoint.

Time zone, operating system (from a short list) and language is fine, because it’s not a lot of entropy and my ip is known anyway unless on a vpn.

Gl renderer/graphics card, desktop resolution - nah. The viewport dimension is all that should be known.

Basically the browser should by default have an entropy budget for my entire fingerprint that ensures I’m not personally identifiable.

Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by 9HZZRfNlpR on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:52PM (#19844748)
How can you not transfer the info about plugins? You test them the in front, can he done in million ways with JavaScript and send it to a server of your choice.