6 private links
How does this keep happening? It is a mystery.
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2014/10/23/ecommerce-study/
The actual paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cbw/static/pdf/imc151-hannak.pdf...
"As shown in Figure 11, Travelocity alters hotel search results for users who browse from iOS devices." (In particular, alters the prices shown to the user).
Google Chromium, sans integration with Google. Contribute to Eloston/ungoogled-chromium development by creating an account on GitHub.
Download Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans for Firefox. Save time by asking Buster to solve captchas for you.
This post presents a crawl of the top Alexa 500K to study the use and the diversity of the canvas fingerprints on the web.
I’m on Team Firefox.
Yes, even the Tor browser can be spied on by this nasty code
Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.