[linux-elitists] Browser fingerprinting

[Cathal Garvey]

> with folks that refuse to run JavaScript
Not "JavaScript"; "Unverified, potentially malicious code with a
rich history of exploits inside a frame I use to navigate the online
world". It wouldn't matter if the code was LISP or Python; the problem
isn't the language, it's the context.

That said, I do run Javascript, albiet through NoScript. I just wish
there were more fine-grained policy restrictions I could place on it,
such as "No XmlHttpRequest/Websocket" or "No browser introspection
(fonts, boundaries, etc.)", and let webapps that are trying to
fingerprint me without my permission just crash and burn.

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
"Al Billings" <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:

> Only if you wish it was "the good old days" but then this is the list
> with folks that refuse to run JavaScript and don't understand why
> anyone would want to use twitter, as I recall.
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> Al
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Adam Back
> <adam at cypherspace.org="mailto:adam at cypherspace.org">> wrote: Well you
> should say the web developers regressed since then.  
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> Adam

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