How does Sup Forums handle browser fingerprinting? Is there a realistic way to defend against it? (besides browsing on a pristine virtual machine every time)
What if it becomes the No. 1 tracking method?
Browser fingerprinting
Adrian Lewis
Benjamin Scott
VMs aren't a terrible idea. Realistically, though, we're going to have to start changing our habits rather than changing our software. Be selective and sparing in the choice of websites you frequent.
Camden Gomez
Spoofing your user agent is pretty much the best solution, isn't it?
Benjamin Jackson
That's only one of many identifying characteristics that are included in a browser "fingerprint."
Jacob Lee
Browsing on a pristine virtual machine every time doesn't do dick if you visit a website that requires login.
You need tracking scripts disabled and a different fingerprint for each site you visit.
I'm sure somebody has already done or is working on this.
John Miller
If your UA says you're running Windows but a different part of your fingerprint indicates you're running Linux you're probably unique or at least in a smaller anonymity set than if you just left it.
Dominic Powell
>a website that requires login
that's a bad argument and you should feel bad
Hunter Cooper
Your tinfoil is showing.
Daniel Gomez
Make an addon that simply spoofs the other characteristics then.
Connor Gonzalez
Yes, it consists of many many things like system fonts, resolution, browser plugins, html5 rendering also differs across browsers
Christopher Hernandez
browserprint.info
Superior
Josiah Gonzalez
Looks like blocking Javascript helps mask many different characteristics.
Michael Long
Truth.
But many sites won't work without JavaScript.
Google could easily insert fingerprinting code into Sup Forums's CAPTCHA and we'd be left with the choice of not posting or being fingerprinted
Jack Hill
If have not already
Cooper Allen
Doesn't Captcha have some form of fingerprinting? It does a "check" to see if you have to do the Captcha or not.
Aaron Martinez
Use the blender add-on.
Wyatt Adams
Blocking Java script sets you apart from the majority of people who don't block Java meaning you stand out more.
Eli Myers
Nah. If you've got scripts disabled then your browser won't talk to Google so they won't know you're on 4chins.
If on the other hand you had scripts partially disabled, like CAPTCHA scripts enabled but Google Analytics disabled, then they could see that you've got scripts partially enabled and potentially use that to fingerprint you.
CAPTCHAs can also be used to fingerprint users: browserprint.info
Logan Smith
Ie blender
Alexander Martin
"The least unique desktop browsers often have JavaScript disabled (perhaps via NoScript)"
-How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (The paper published about Panopticlick)
Michael Allen
Still less unique than getting fully fingerprinted.
Hudson Fisher
Daily reminder not to believe lies about Edge and how it's shit.
Ryan Hill
www.businessinsider.com/google-no-captcha-adtruth-privacy-research-2015-2
Mason Butler
that's some scary shit, now i know why the fucking captcha keeps sending me pics of another country and always the same one, it probably detects what kind of keyboard the laptop i bought there uses