Agreed that the article is poorly written for the Hacker News crowd, would be nice to have a description of his technique so the merits/faults could be analyzed

Agreed that the article is poorly written for the Hacker News crowd, would be nice to have a description of his technique so the merits/faults could be analyzed without everyone conducting a reverse engineering effort. It’s sad to have a smart guy like this dedicating his academic career to something this inconsequential. Anyone with enough incentive is going to be able to defeat any technique this guy dreams up. Anyone who might benefit on paper from detecting a headless browser isn’t going to want this because any possibility of a false positive is a missed impression, or a missed sales opportunity, or an ADA lawsuit (US), or an angry customer.