Scary numbers. Even with chrome incognito unique to 1 in 1.7 m on linux. Maybe better on windows. I wonder if no-script would help or is this passive headers only? Seems like the leak was fonts, plugins and user agent in that order at 1 in 128k, 266k, and 1.7m respectivey. Need less chatty browsers. Adam On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:07:56AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:11:46 -0700 From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org> To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: [linux-elitists] Browser fingerprinting Message-ID: <20131006181146.GA21225@zea.gateway.2wire.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Corporate speak: "Tawakol and Ingis both said the new technology, which is still under development, would allow companies to use alternative approaches that are sometimes called statistical or probabilistic tracking, while remaining in compliance with industry privacy standards."
Translation: "Fine, you smug cookie-blocking nerds. We're going to go all browser fingerprinting on you."
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/10/04/ad-groups-prepare-for-cookieless...
Mozilla has been working on cleaning up the third-party cookie problem, and making a dent in it, as you can tell by the complaints from the creepy adtech business.
Unfortunately, Firefox appears to be highly fingerprintable.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ says "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,458,043 tested so far."
Ouch. Got to get my act together here. But of course the more that I customize, the more unique my browser looks.
Who's got a browser that comes up reasonably generic on Panopticlick, and what did you do?
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