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A comment on Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon. Parent comment

Re:Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon by jaflo on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:21AM (#26053101)
I think you could also run this on an iframe embedded in a page
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Re:Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon by infogulch on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:51AM (#26053208)
What is your response to parent's comment that "it wouldn't work inside an iframe, since iframes don't have favicons"?
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Re:Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon by scotty79 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:33AM (#26053355)
Browsers send requests for favicons for pages in iframes even though they are not showing them.
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