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Go here => https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ Chrome + Firefox add-on.

by X4 13y ago

_delirium 13y ago
Thanks! As a side note, I've been impressed with French academia lately. Between INRIA and IRCAM, I see a lot of quite practical stuff that I like coming from there.
- X4 13y ago
  Glad to help. Yes so do I, I've seen a lot of INRIA projects that stunned me. I didn't know about CCRMA, would you mind sharing some stuff you found over there?
  - _delirium 13y ago
    Hah sorry, I edited my comment before you replied, but I got a brain mix-up between the international computer-music centers' acronyms: CCRMA is an American one at Stanford, but I meant IRCAM, the French one at Centre Pompidou. The third of the "big three" is CNMAT at UC-Berkeley. All are 5-letter acronyms, so it is a bit easy to confuse... It will not be very interesting if you don't care about computer music, but IRCAM has an ethos of producing many projects in that area. For example, the Max system that later became Max/MSP (and later the open-source version, Pd) was originally an IRCAM project. They also have a Common Lisp based visual-score system (http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home), a system for data-based resynthesis using musical corpora (http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT), and a number of other things, including many projects more on the music/composition side.
gaadd33 13y ago
That doesn't seem to actually block anything? It just says it sends them your data for analyzing?
X4 13y ago
Here's the same test but Web2.0 style. http://fingerprint.pet-portal.eu/ http://fingerprint.pet-portal.eu/
1337biz 13y ago
Upvoted you even so it doesn't bring a solution. They clearly state For the moment, there is no protection from fingerprinting. This seems just a wrong statement. If Firefox and Chrome are open source there must be a way to modify the fingerprint. Even if it comes in form of some "pre-loader" that blocks the sending of one fingerprint and overwrites it with another. My suspicion is that sites coming across as super sneaky (e.g. LinkedIn) are actually using browser identification / fingerprinting to make their otherwise impossible suggestions.

Go here => https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ Chrome + Firefox add-on.

by X4 13y ago

Go here => https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ Chrome + Firefox add-on.

Thanks! As a side note, I've been impressed with French academia lately. Between INRIA and IRCAM, I see a lot of quite practical stuff that I like coming from there.

X4 13y ago
Glad to help. Yes so do I, I've seen a lot of INRIA projects that stunned me. I didn't know about CCRMA, would you mind sharing some stuff you found over there?
- _delirium 13y ago
  Hah sorry, I edited my comment before you replied, but I got a brain mix-up between the international computer-music centers' acronyms: CCRMA is an American one at Stanford, but I meant IRCAM, the French one at Centre Pompidou. The third of the "big three" is CNMAT at UC-Berkeley. All are 5-letter acronyms, so it is a bit easy to confuse... It will not be very interesting if you don't care about computer music, but IRCAM has an ethos of producing many projects in that area. For example, the Max system that later became Max/MSP (and later the open-source version, Pd) was originally an IRCAM project. They also have a Common Lisp based visual-score system (http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home), a system for data-based resynthesis using musical corpora (http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT), and a number of other things, including many projects more on the music/composition side.

gaadd33 13y ago

That doesn't seem to actually block anything? It just says it sends them your data for analyzing?

X4 13y ago

Here's the same test but Web2.0 style. http://fingerprint.pet-portal.eu/ http://fingerprint.pet-portal.eu/

1337biz 13y ago

Upvoted you even so it doesn't bring a solution. They clearly state For the moment, there is no protection from fingerprinting. This seems just a wrong statement. If Firefox and Chrome are open source there must be a way to modify the fingerprint. Even if it comes in form of some "pre-loader" that blocks the sending of one fingerprint and overwrites it with another. My suspicion is that sites coming across as super sneaky (e.g. LinkedIn) are actually using browser identification / fingerprinting to make their otherwise impossible suggestions.