[HN Gopher] Browser fingerprinting using only CSS
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Browser fingerprinting using only CSS
Author : willemlabu
Score : 35 points
Date : 2022-01-04 13:36 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (csstracking.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (csstracking.dev)
| webmobdev wrote:
| Sigh. Hope uBlock Origin will start blocking these kind of CSS
| trackers too.
| marapuru wrote:
| This is awful, especially knowing it will be used to identify
| people that want to stay anonymous. But I'm glad this got
| published for awareness.
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| By not loading CSS by default, you can probably block this
| identification behavior. Haven't tested it though.
| capableweb wrote:
| I'm glad things like Tor Browser exists, seems to mostly defeat
| most (if not all) of the properties listed on the site.
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