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Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by dathinab on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:46PM (#27147227)
I guess (and just that), that this can happen if there are overlaps in the scheme handlers.

I.e. there are some schemas which lets say XCode handles but which also some other program handles.

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Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by buggeryorkshire on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:48PM (#27147253)
Yeah makes sense if it's the schema handlers. I'd just not be as assertive if I was them that something was installed if there was overlap.
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Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by dathinab on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#27147636)
It also doesn't work at all under Chromium for Linux no idea why but the result is complete garbage.
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Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by valve1 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:54PM (#27147978)
yeah, chrome/chromium on linux not tested at all, mostly because nobody on the team is using linux. We tested it on MacOS Big Sur and a bit of Windows. Full table of what was tested here: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#... dathinab
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