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Before you get all jubilant, note that they have fingerprinting techniques which don't use JS[0]. It was able to identity me. Contrary to popular opinion, disabling JS doesn't protect you from fingerprinting.

They describe their approach[1]. They use HTTP headers and conditional request triggered by CSS conditional media queries to gather data. Something like @media(...) {background: url(/tracking/$clientid)}. But in principle, they could also try and fingerprint the TCP/IP stack or the TLS implementation. I'm not sure it would get them more data than OS+Browser, though.

[0] https://noscriptfingerprint.com/

[1] https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-...

parent psacawa 3 years ago

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