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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by kakkksaknmdm on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:27AM (#20060641)
No, not this is some amateur work. State of the art techniques css fingerprinting can uniquely identify 1 device from billions.

Also this is nothing but getting dimension of screen and other browser attributes which are useless now. The current state of the art cannot be mitigated unless you put a 95% penalty on performance on the CSS engine AFAIK.

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by pushcx on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:51PM (#20066896)
The old link you keep pasting does not support this or your other hyperbolic assertions. Stop dangling claims of secret superpowers or support them.
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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by kakkksaknmdm on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:21AM (#20068836)
Have a read: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf
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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by pragmatick on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:40AM (#20081641)
All the links you provided describe techniques that would only work on mobile devices with access to the sensors. On my desktop PC there's no GPS, no gyrometer, no webcam and no browser access to my microphone.
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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by pushcx on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:02AM (#20082635)
And no access to that on mobile without security dialogs. Dude originally claimed it worked via CSS. I guess he doesn't have secret superpowers.
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