Re:Anonymous Browser Fingerprinting in Practice
by fingerprinter on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:59PM
(#6046835)
In practice this is not effective, for as someone else noted, tracking can and is done at server level as well.
Most implementations, though, make the assumption that if they get JS info, that info is good. Better to give them wrong/inaccurate/changing JS info than no info.
So, I leave JS on, use some personal plugins to change variables and give them bad data on each request. They won't know and will just get bad fingerprints that are not seen again.
Most implementations, though, make the assumption that if they get JS info, that info is good. Better to give them wrong/inaccurate/changing JS info than no info.
So, I leave JS on, use some personal plugins to change variables and give them bad data on each request. They won't know and will just get bad fingerprints that are not seen again.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046810