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| | antoinevastel.com
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| | This post presents a crawl of the top Alexa 500K to study the use and the diversity of the canvas fingerprints on the web.
| | themarkup.org
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| | Blacklight catalogs the many ways any website tracks visitors: from cookies to capturing every user keystroke and mouse movement
| | albertofdr.github.io
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| | Device fingerprinting is a widely used technique that allows a third party to identify a particular device. Applications of device fingerprinting include authentication, attacker identification, or software license binding. Device fingerprinting is also used on the web as a method for identifying users. Unfortunately, one of its most widespread uses is to identify users visiting different websites and thus build their browsing history. This constitutes a specific type of web tracking that poses a threat to users' privacy. While many anti-tracking solutions have been proposed, all of them block or tamper with device fingerprinting techniques rather than just blocking their web tracking application. Therefore, users may be limited in their experience while usi...
| | questingblog.com
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| The latest adventure I'm working on for Zine Quest, The Waking of Willowby Hall, is fully funded and has all its stretch goals unlocked! There's less than a day left to grab it! Thanks to everyone who has pledged so far and helped to make this thing real.