Fingerprint defender: defense against browser-based user tracking

D Moad, V Sihag, G Choudhary, DG Duguma… - … Symposium on Mobile …, 2021 - Springer
It is difficult to be anonymous online with user activities always under the scanner. Multiple
identifiers and their combinatories are used for user identification. While browsing, trackers …

{Fp-Scanner}: The privacy implications of browser fingerprint inconsistencies

A Vastel, P Laperdrix, W Rudametkin… - 27th USENIX Security …, 2018 - usenix.org
By exploiting the diversity of device and browser configurations, browser fingerprinting
established itself as a viable technique to enable stateless user tracking in production …

Long-term observation on browser fingerprinting: Users' trackability and perspective

G Pugliese, C Riess, F Gassmann… - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2020 - petsymposium.org
Browser fingerprinting as a tracking technique to recognize users based on their browsers'
unique features or behavior has been known for more than a decade. We present the results …

A Defense against JavaScript Object-Based Fingerprinting and Passive Fingerprinting

VL Ajay, AM Guptha - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Browser fingerprinting is a mechanism that identifies and collects the attributes of a device
and each of these attribute values are combined to generate a unique identifier for the …

Not all browsers are created equal: Comparing web browser fingerprintability

NM Al-Fannah, W Li - Advances in Information and Computer Security …, 2017 - Springer
Browsers and their users can be tracked even in the absence of a persistent IP address or
cookie. Unique and hence identifying pieces of information, making up what is known as a …

Tracking your browser with high-performance browser fingerprint recognition model

W Jiang, X Wang, X Song, Q Liu… - China communications, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the cyber security has attracted great attention in recent years, and with all kinds of
tools'(such as Network Agent, VPN and so on) help, traditional methods of tracking users like …

FP-Block: Usable Web Privacy by Controlling Browser Fingerprinting

CF Torres, H Jonker, S Mauw - … 20th European Symposium on Research in …, 2015 - Springer
Online tracking of users is used for benign goals, such as detecting fraudulent logins, but
also to invade user privacy. We posit that for non-oppressed users, tracking within one …

[PDF][PDF] Canvas Deceiver-A New Defense Mechanism Against Canvas Fingerprinting

MA OBIDAT, S OBEIDAT, J HOLST, T LEE - 2020 - iiisci.org
Browser fingerprinting refers to a collection of techniques used to gather information about a
user's browser attributes. The information gained from a browser fingerprint can be used to …

A collaborative strategy for mitigating tracking through browser fingerprinting

A Gómez-Boix, D Frey, YD Bromberg… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Browser fingerprinting is a technique that collects information about the browser
configuration and the environment in which it is running. This information is so diverse that it …

On the robustness of mobile device fingerprinting: Can mobile users escape modern web-tracking mechanisms?

T Hupperich, D Maiorca, M Kührer, T Holz… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Client fingerprinting techniques enhance classical cookie-based user tracking to increase
the robustness of tracking techniques. A unique identifier is created based on characteristic …