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jptech
1590 days ago
Not an attack vector per se, but largely used for fingerprinting.
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1_player
1590 days ago
What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?
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cookiengineer
1590 days ago
> What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?
HTML tags.
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mmastrac
1590 days ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not, but most likely not true.
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egberts1
1590 days ago
Yes, WebGL remains a large surface area of an attack vector.
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WithinReason
1590 days ago
Disabling it makes your fingerprint more unique
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jptech
1590 days ago
Giving out a Null value has less entropy than a unique value. It may also be likely that it gets dropped when computing the overall fingerprint.
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WithinReason
1590 days ago
if 20% of people explicitly disable it then it carries log_2(5) = 2.32 bits of entropy so it's not going to get dropped.
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