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Browser Fingerprinting
From: |
Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Browser Fingerprinting |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:44:04 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Here is an interesting article on so called "Browser
Fingerprinting" [1]. This can be of some concern to
people using uncommon browsers like Emacs-w3m.
The way they do fingerprinting is with cookies, with
JavaScript, and/or with HTML5 canvas (which uses
JavaScript).
Because Emacs-w3m doesn't support JavaScript, one should
be safe from all that save for the cookies, but they can
be be disabled with
(setq w3m-use-cookies nil)
Then there is also the User-Agent field in the HTTP
request which browser supplies voluntarily.
Because Emacs-w3m isn't the most common of browsers,
this field can be used to identify YOU - possibly.
Inhibit with
(setq w3m-add-user-agent nil)
Now, check out the progress on [2] :)
(The language is still "en" - however I don't think
anyone can be tracked using that data...)
Of course, the IP is still there, because otherwise the
server won't know where to send the requested HTML.
I think it is much more likely that tracking will be
done using that, than the browser fingerprint!
But that's not a browser issue, people who look for that
kind of anonymity will probably use VPN or Tor or be on
some other *net altogether, besides the internet...
Even if you feel you have nothing to hide, and you are
not paranoid, it can be a good feeling not to give
anything to these bozos anyway :)
[1] https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/browser-fingerprinting/
[2] https://amiunique.org/fpNoJS
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- Browser Fingerprinting,
Emanuel Berg <=
- Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/15
- Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/16
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, tomas, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/17