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valve1

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About valve1

CTO at Fingerprint.com

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    Comment #47868156

    We don't use vulnerabilities in our products.

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    Comment #27148394

    Thanks for testing it on Windows. We mostly tested it on MacOS Big Sur because all devs on the team have that OS. With Windows different timings might be needed, we'll check into i…

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    Comment #27147978

    yeah, chrome/chromium on linux not tested at all, mostly because nobody on the team is using linux. We tested it on MacOS Big Sur and a bit of Windows. Full table of what was teste…

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    Comment #27147829

    Thanks for testing it on Linux. We only tested it on these browser + OS combinations: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#...

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    Comment #27147706

    On Tor we show a fake captcha on the demo, which allows to collect multiple key presses and use each as a user-provided trigger.

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    Comment #27147669

    Thanks for testing this on Opera, we only tested on these browser/OS combinations: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#...

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    Comment #27147399

    Windows can sometimes say you have Skype, because it comes bundled even if you didn't install it yourself.

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    Comment #27147380

    Yeah, we tested it on MacOS Big Sur mostly. Nobody on the team had linux so we didn't really test there. It can be made to work with better timings for the measurements etc.

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    Comment #27147363

    Browsers open pop-ups to ask "Can I run that application?" but only if that application is installed. If that application is not installed, the browser will ignore the custom URL.