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On Linux: - in Firefox, it detected Epic Games Telegram Discord Battle.net Xcode NordVPN Sketch Teamviewer Microsoft Word WhatsApp Postman Adobe Messenger Figm
by jraph 5y ago
On Linux:
- in Firefox, it detected Epic Games Telegram Discord Battle.net Xcode NordVPN Sketch Teamviewer Microsoft Word WhatsApp Postman Adobe Messenger Figma Hotspot Shield ExpressVPN Notion iTunes, none of which I have installed. It didn't detect VSCode though I have VSCodium.
- On Chromium, it warned it would not work well on Chrome on Linux. It incorrectly detected all the apps. It seems that the browser would try to open the links with xdg-open.
Clever hack anyway!
- valve1 5y agoThanks for testing it on Linux. We only tested it on these browser + OS combinations: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#target-browsers https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#...
- jraph 5y agoif you need more info: Firefox 88.0.1 (64 bits), Chromium 90.0.4430.93, on openSUSE Tumbleweed
- DistressedDrone 5y agoUsing Firefox on Linux, it detected all the apps (very few of which I have) except Skype (correct, I don't have it). Security through obscurity does it again!
- psanford 5y agoAlso Chrome on Linux. For me it says it detected 11 apps installed, but I don't have any of those apps installed. Strange. Edit: With firefox it is able to correctly detect 3 installed desktop applications.
- jeltz 5y agoYup, it was broken for me too on Linux unless I somehow have managed to install both Xcode and MS Word. :)