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Chameleon: browser fingerprinting protection for everybody
- nnnnni 12y ago"for everybody as long as you're using Chrome or Chromium" (or perhaps another browser that accepts Chrome extensions)
- ghostwords 12y agoHi, Chameleon dev here. "Browser fingerprinting protection for everybody" is Chameleon's mission statement, not a description of present state (which is dev-only, not even beta software). Sorry for the confusion.
- edeirme 12y agoCan't you get fingerprinted solely by the use of chrome extensions? For example by using 5 specific extensions let's say Pocket, Google Dictionary, Adblock, xxx and Chameleon can't get fingerprinted by that? Does this extension offers some kind of protection against that?
- ghostwords 12y agoGeneral-purpose Chrome extension enumeration[1] should have been fixed some time ago, maybe here: http://crbug.com/45876 http://crbug.com/45876 There are still issues with fingerprinting based on specific attributes of a particular extension (for example: [2]), however. 1: http://www.skeletonscribe.net/2011/07/sparse-bruteforce-addon-scanner.html http://www.skeletonscribe.net/2011/07/sparse-bruteforce-addo... 2: http://blog.securitee.org/?p=277 http://blog.securitee.org/?p=277