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> It's a cat and mouse game as fingerprint parameters keep increasing, but I think it's possible to win this one. I don't think it's possible to win this one w
by clarry 7y ago
> It's a cat and mouse game as fingerprint parameters keep increasing, but I think it's possible to win this one.
I don't think it's possible to win this one without dramatic changes to the web (e.g. abandon JS). Panopticlick was started 10 years ago, fingerprinting was pretty well known about back then, and though browser vendors have started adding defenses, it has evidently done nothing as the amount of data you can gather via scripts keeps only increasing and blocking some vectors would break some sites.
The situation was dire 10 years ago, it hasn't gotten better, it's not getting better. If anything it's now just worse because of so many idiots writing sites that don't really work at all with JS disabled.
The most practical approach I can think of that you could employ right now is to move browsers to run on headless servers (instead of the user's computer) and let them stream the rendered page to your client. It's still got plenty of issues, and javascript is making it hard to do it right and have a good UX. Fuck javascript and everyone who uses it without degrading gracefully.