Researchers develop cross-browser fingerprinting technique

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9 years ago

It's been known since around ~2010 that browsing the web with javascript enabled allows third parties to track you across the internet irrespective of whether you have DNT/cookies enabled or use incognito mode. It seems that now similar approaches can be used to track you even if you use different browsers [1] and the source is available if not fully complete [2].

Quite a good talk on this last year at MS Research[3].

This raises a question - will we see users start to disable javascript in the same way as they have started to enable DNT and (to a degree disable cookies)?

[1]:https://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/14/researchers-develop-cross-browser-fingerprinting-technique

[2]:https://github.com/Song-Li/cross_browser

[3]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1Y96jC5AA

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