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A comment on Tales of Favicons and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Modern Browsers [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Tales of Favicons and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Mode... by 123123141 on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:12AM (#25872882)
Later in the paper:

> we have disclosed our research to all the browser vendors.

Please consider that the researchers apparently submitted TWO bug reports. One because functionally the cache is broken, one because there's a potential privacy issue.

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Re:Tales of Favicons and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Mode... by mccr8 on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:51PM (#25874118)
The account used to file that bug has not filed any other bug reports, so it isn't clear to me if they did report the underlying security issue that they found. (Disclaimer: I work on Firefox, but I'm just speaking for myself.)
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