{"id":387,"date":"2013-10-01T07:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:17:54","slug":"browser-fingerprinting-theres-no-place-where-you-can-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/web\/browser-fingerprinting-theres-no-place-where-you-can-hide","title":{"rendered":"Browser Fingerprinting: There&#8217;s no place where you can hide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">EFF<\/a>, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, did research about the <em>users&#8217; privacy<\/em>\u00a0and how it is possible to\u00a0<strong>identify the user<\/strong>\u00a0in a quite unique way.<br \/>The concept is based on\u00a0<strong>gathering as much information as possible<\/strong>, like user agent (browser and version), resolution, plugins installed, timezone, language, and so on to create a message digest to identify the user \/ user&#8217;s device in an accurate way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that\u00a0<strong>disabling the cookies is not enough<\/strong>\u00a0to avoid this kind of identification. 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