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Apparently with firefox there is a request to enable flash (which i purposely dont install) I'm led to assume adobe flash is the piece which actually divulges
by pweissbrod 9y ago
Apparently with firefox there is a request to enable flash (which i purposely dont install)
I'm led to assume adobe flash is the piece which actually divulges all the secrets about my machine. Not surprising.
- ccheney 9y agoI don't think this is the case. It seems to be a part of the overall fingerprinting test and having Flash disabled didn't block me from viewing the final results.
- 27182818284 9y agoThere are a lot more sneaky ways such as http://diracdeltas.github.io/sniffly/ http://diracdeltas.github.io/sniffly/ that are often combined
- qwertwerker 9y agoFlash makes it easier to get some of the information like your system fonts, but JavaScript get the same information it's just more difficult. It has to cycle through a list of fonts and test for them individually rather than Flash which just gives the full list of fonts you have installed.