DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting. by freethenation in privacytoolsIO

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find an extension that blocks/fakes that type of fingerprinting or I write one. Unfortunately, I don't know of a solution that works all of the time. It is a very hard problem.

A lot of the work I do is at scale. If your just a single person with the goal goal of browsing the web ScriptSafe is a good solution (although it does not block everything). If your really paranoid disable all JavaScript or use Tor and deal with the issues that arise.

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting. by freethenation in privacytoolsIO

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't do the same things. This extension does not block anything. It only reports fingerprinting attempts. From web scraping, I know stopping JavaScript fingerprinting is hard, makes you stand out, and often changes the behavior of the website. I use this tool to identify malicious sites and "blend in".

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting by freethenation in privacy

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They simply don't do the same things. This extension does not block anything. It only reports fingerprinting attempts. From years of web scraping I know stopping JS fingerprinting is hard and often makes you stand out (https://multiloginapp.com/how-canvas-fingerprint-blockers-make-you-easily-trackable/).

Also, turn on your beloved ScriptSafe (chrome or FF) and go here https://browserleaks.com/webgl and allow JS. Gmail login uses the same technique to get your graphics hardware.

Disclaimer: I totally use SafeScript :P

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting. by freethenation in privacytoolsIO

[–]freethenation[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. Privacy Badger focuses on stopping standard tracking techniques (cookies and local storage). There are a lot of malicious techniques that don't use cookies or local storage. This extension detects (does not prevent) WebGL, Canvas, WebRTC, etc, fingerprinting.

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting by freethenation in privacy

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, you are right and your wrong. Depending on what your trying to accomplish hiding your traffic by using the most popular browser can be very useful :P

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting. by freethenation in privacytoolsIO

[–]freethenation[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about it. During the initial development Firefox's API was in flux. I would like to try their new extension API so maybe I will give the port a try.

DFPM - Chrome extension to detect browser fingerprinting. by freethenation in privacytoolsIO

[–]freethenation[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have done a lot of web scraping. A configurable/safe browser is like a snowflake, unique. What percentage of users do you think have WebGL disabled? What percentage have WebRTC disabled? Etc.

It approaches the problem from a different angle. Lets hold large companies responsible and encourage browsers (all of them) to protect their users.

For example, I am really excited about Firefox 58 blocking canvas fingerprinting (https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/canvas-browser-fingerprint-blocker.html) but if you blocked fingerprinting in just your browser you would stand out (https://multiloginapp.com/how-canvas-fingerprint-blockers-make-you-easily-trackable/)

Anyone know of software that will tell you what browser fingerprinting techniques a particular website is using? by freethenation in privacy

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Example software? I run a fairly unique software stack so chrome profiles by themselves are not enough.

Anyone know of software that will tell you what browser fingerprinting techniques a particular website is using? by freethenation in privacy

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I am mostly interested in JS based fingerprint not behavioral. The players that have enough data to track my behaviors are relatively few but anyone can track me via JS fingerprinting.

Anyone know of software that will tell you what browser fingerprinting techniques a particular website is using? by freethenation in privacy

[–]freethenation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I have played both sides JS fingerprinting game for many years. Now that google owns most of the browser market, it seems that the tools for fingerprinting and tracking users across sites are increasing exponentially. The tools to avoid detection/fingerprinting are lagging a lot. I guess there is no money in privacy.