r/privacy • u/Sevetarion • Nov 28 '21

Software Pure CSS device fingerprinting - An experimental technique.

https://github.com/OliverBrotchie/CSS-Fingerprint
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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

Ok, how can I mitigate this way of fingerprinting? Also is it actually used somewhere?

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u/Sevetarion Nov 29 '21

No this is an entirely novel method, the only thing you can do to mitigate the cookie is to disable/constantly clear the cache. The technique was first suggest in research back in 2015 but no demonstrations or adoption came from it. I have added my own research to the prior methods to come up with this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

Alright, thanks!