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Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Post by gary_0 »

Does this technique fingerprint based on hardware/driver/OS differences with audio processing, or just the browser software?

I believe there are (or were, hopefully) similar techniques using that exposed differences between the underlying graphics devices.

Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #3
balls187 wrote: post #2

Fingerprint states that this service is for fraud detection, but they are actively discussing how they are circumventing browser privacy protections. So as a user my preference not to be fingerprinted or tracked takes a back seat in the name of fraud detection? So we should allow police to wiretap in the name of crime prevention?

Tale as old as time. Think of all of the legislative attacks on encryption in the name of protecting people.

My charitable take is that it does take both ends of the spectrum to arrive at a solution that does not exactly satisfy everyone, but is an acceptable place to stop the impossible arms race. The unfortunate reality is that we are nowhere the end of that race.

Admittedly, that was the first time I read about fingerprinting in this manner and bypassing explicit privacy protections is definitely not something I would want for my future self ( or that my of my family ).

In other words, I think you are right. Privacy probably needs to be codified. It may seem hard to do given existing entrenched interests, but you have to start somewhere. Not that long ago people thought buying people is 'just the way world works'. Things can change. Slowly, but they do.

Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Post by mikepavone »

stockhorn wrote: post #14

Did I read this correctly and audio fingerprinting is mainly about identifiying the used browser version and OS or laptop, but it cant identify end-users in a stable way?

My phone running Firefox for Android produced the same results as the sample data for Firefox on Windows which does seem to fit with this largely being a browser identification scheme

Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Post by fbdab103 »

stockhorn wrote: post #14

Did I read this correctly and audio fingerprinting is mainly about identifiying the used browser version and OS or laptop, but it cant identify end-users in a stable way?

I think that is correct, but it still seems like an amount of leakage that could be further correlated with other another trick.

There was previously a site which could indicate how globally unique your environment was (some combination of screen size, user-agent, fonts?, etc). Locking down to a specific hardware+browser configuration probably does a lot to remove anonymity.

Re: Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection

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Post by capitainenemo »

modeless wrote: post #7

Putting a node graph audio API in the browser was silly. It should have been just audio worklets.

Wasn't Mozilla's proposed audio API simpler? AFAIK it was beaten out by Google's because people wanted a richer API and lower latencies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120505042746/https://developer...

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