Exploring the Privacy Threats of Browser Extension Fingerprinting

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Carnus%3A-Exploring-the-Privacy-Threats-of-Browser-Karami-Ilia/096459bb1ad69b89ad73e08b880c344d7995139d#citing-papers

If you’re after a light, morning read, this might not fit the bill. But, if you don’t mind the denseness of research, or you’re interested, here’s a highlight from my recent reading! :smile:

I found III. System Design and Implementation and V. Experimental Evaluation: Fingerprints particularly interesting, although I really recommend reading the full paper.

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What an excellent paper. I love reading about fingerprint reduction (and RFP). I’m a regular user of Arkenfox/user.js myself. It’s wild how so many things which you do in your browser can be fingerprinting nightmares. Keep the information flowing freely!

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Interesting read, thanks for sharing. I’ve only skimmed through it quickly looking for some references to about identifying users through their web browser’s installed and/or active themes. Do you guys know if installing themes or customizing themes via local css files e.g., userChrome.css is a concern for privacy?