Thread: How Browser Fingerprinting Works

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing (zdnet.com)

L 35 pts 9 comments by calvin Mar 7, 2019 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Forensic Analysis of the Tor Browser Bundle on OS X, Linux, and Windows (research.torproject.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by wally Jul 2, 2013 browserspdfprivacysecurity Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread

What’s wrong with in-browser cryptography? (tonyarcieri.com)

L 15 pts 6 comments by inactive-user Dec 30, 2013 browsersprivacysecurity Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Introducing gngr: a new browser under development, focussed on privacy (gngr.info)

L 4 pts 5 comments by hrjet Nov 23, 2014 browsersjavaprivacy Web Development Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread

v0.0 of gngr – open-source browser focused on privacy (blog.gngr.info)

L 1 pts 0 comments by hrjet Dec 19, 2014 browsersjavaprivacy Web Development Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread

For background, please see the the [home-page](https://gngr.info) and the [introduction](https://gngr.info/doc/introduction.html).

Browser Privacy in User-Agent Spoofing and Incognito Mode (hackerfactor.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by pushcx Dec 14, 2015 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Do privacy studies help? A Retrospective look at Canvas Fingerprinting (freedom-to-tinker.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by pushcx Jan 16, 2016 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting (jcarlosnorte.com)

L 12 pts 2 comments by pushcx Mar 6, 2016 privacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Free VPN Now built into Opera browser (opera.com)

L 11 pts 5 comments by apy Apr 22, 2016 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

North Korea's Naenara Web Browser: It's Weirder Than We Thought (whitehatsec.com)

L 19 pts 0 comments by Snocrash Jul 19, 2016 browsersnetworkingprivacy Web Development Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy thread

Mozilla removes browser extension "Web of Trust" from its store, because it collects, records, analyzes and sells user-related data to third-parties (reddit.com)

L 14 pts 0 comments by mulander Nov 3, 2016 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Import (finally!) Tor Browser 6.0.5 (OpenBSD port) (marc.info)

L 14 pts 0 comments by jabberwock Nov 14, 2016 browsersopenbsdprivacyrelease Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread

Latacora Riddle and Browser Fingerprinting (swisshttp.blogspot.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by pushcx Dec 5, 2016 browsersreversing Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Firefox 52 prevents websites from fingerprinting users using system fonts (bleepingcomputer.com)

L 35 pts 16 comments by calvin Dec 31, 2016 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

The official Tor browser for iOS is free to use (arstechnica.com)

L 5 pts 2 comments by calvin Jan 10, 2017 browsersiosprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers (arstechnica.co.uk)

L 37 pts 10 comments by pushcx Feb 14, 2017 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates (shiftordie.de)

L 4 pts 1 comments by pushcx Feb 26, 2017 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Decentraleyes finally available for Chromium-based browsers (github.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by junkblocker Mar 8, 2017 browsersprivacysecurity Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (blog.lukaszolejnik.com)

L 9 pts 0 comments by tedu Apr 28, 2017 browsersprivacysecurityweb Web Development Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread

Panopticlick: Is your browser safe against tracking? (panopticlick.eff.org)

L 38 pts 17 comments by unbalancedparentheses Jun 19, 2017 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

TensorFire: Blazing fast in-browser neural networks (tenso.rs)

L 5 pts 2 comments by anishathalye Jul 31, 2017 aibrowsersshow AI / Machine Learning Web Development Programming (General) thread

What every browser knows about you (webkay.robinlinus.com)

L 11 pts 1 comments by pgl Aug 10, 2017 browsersprivacyweb Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Deterministic Browser (arxiv.org)

L 7 pts 0 comments by pushcx Aug 26, 2017 browserspdfprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser (adweek.com)

L 63 pts 51 comments by calvin Sep 15, 2017 browsersiosmacprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Privacy Pass: A browser extension for anonymous authentication (medium.com)

L 3 pts 2 comments by jabberwock Nov 9, 2017 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Firefox Implements Another Privacy-Preserving Feature Taken From the Tor Browser (bleepingcomputer.com)

L 52 pts 8 comments by unbalancedparentheses Dec 11, 2017 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Passive Fingerprinting of HTTP/2 Clients (blackhat.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by pushcx Dec 27, 2017 browserspdfprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Data Collection at Mozilla: Browser Errors (mkelly.me)

L 2 pts 0 comments by Screwtape Apr 11, 2018 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

Make your Firefox browser a privacy superpower with these extensions (blog.mozilla.org)

L 9 pts 6 comments by fs111 Aug 10, 2018 browsersprivacy Web Development Security / Privacy thread

By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers (twitter.com)

L 92 pts 32 comments by kuijsten Feb 22, 2019 browsersprivacyweb Web Development Security / Privacy thread