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Changing the fingerprint every 1 minute is not useful

Open Z0pyrus opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments
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Changing the fingerprint every 1 minute is not useful like this article you linked in the Extension says

"submitting random canvas fingerprint is like changing the outfit you wear every 10 seconds"

And I think that's makes a lot of scenes and should be changed. It would be way better when you could decide by yourself when the canvas information should be changed. I would prefer it to change every 24 hours or so. The same problem is with the User-Agent Randomization. Now it is more striking than just making the Browser more common. I was also thinking that it would be nice to generate those information when the browser is opened and when closed it will get deleted (so it stays during one Session) I would love to see those changes in the future to make this Extension even better

Z0pyrus avatar Jun 24 '20 19:06 Z0pyrus

It could even be dangerous. Changing a fingerprint every minute is easy for sites to detect. Most fingerprinting extensions change it at random. The amount that changes every minute is probably one in a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand of users, leaving us easy to fingerprint, and leaving me skeptical of the research that has gone into this plugin.

code3z avatar Apr 15 '21 00:04 code3z