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I would think Header Enhancement is not widely used (only few ISPs or so use it) but Browser fingerprinting must be quite wide-spread. It is hard to detect from
by soumyadeb 7y ago
I would think Header Enhancement is not widely used (only few ISPs or so use it) but Browser fingerprinting must be quite wide-spread. It is hard to detect from the client-side so hard to say how wide-spread is it
Here is a study of fingerprinting effectiveness. Not what you wanted but a worthwhile read.
https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-browser-fingerprints-here-is-what-we-found-82c319464dc9 https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-brows...
- ryeguy_24 7y agoSo, how does browser fingerprinting work. Does it basically look at the 1) IP and 2) Browser Agent pair for near uniqueness?
- soumyadeb 7y agoLots of things from browser settings to what plugins you have. These guys will tell you how unique is your browser fingerprint https://amiunique.org/fp https://amiunique.org/fp
- sm4rk0 7y agoThis should be mentioned here, too https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- simpss 7y agofingerprintjs readme does a good job of explaining it: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2 https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
- mylons 7y agoyou can spoof a browser pretty easily in the request. you can tell the server you are w/e you want the server to think you are.
- tinus_hn 7y agoThese days over 90% of traffic is encrypted so the amount of requests they can touch is pretty limited.