This is great, I needed more tools for tracking bad users who have been banned and try to ban evade. I have been using Samy Kamkars evercookie which is pretty good but some of the techniques are dated.
Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
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Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#32(2023) per readme.md date
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#33I don't understand the live demo it gave me some ID, but how do I test that some different website can track me resulting in same ID? or is it only "detect private browsing/container on same browser" kind of stuff?
It could track you between site visits, at a minimum.
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#34Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#35Does it work if you disable favicons? (I disabled favicons when I set up the computer, but for a different reason; it is a feature that I don't use.)
If websites can detect that you've disabled favicons, then you are easy to track between all websites because you are very unusual.
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#36did anyone ever make use of this in practice? 32 redirects to construct a unique id seems very impractical
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#37I was sure this has been a thing for a while, either that or safari has a UI bug since forever. I regularly get the wrong favicon in specific sites, for example ars technica favicon in reddit
I get the wrong for HN in mobile Chrome
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#38did anyone ever make use of this in practice? 32 redirects to construct a unique id seems very impractical
Ad networks don’t care. It’s a data leak. Even a few extra bits can be valuable to tag you with a better uid.
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#39Does it work if you disable favicons? (I disabled favicons when I set up the computer, but for a different reason; it is a feature that I don't use.)
If websites can detect that you've disabled favicons, then you are easy to track between all websites because you are very unusual.
I don't think that's true. You'll just look like someone who already has it cached.
Re: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
#40I was sure this has been a thing for a while, either that or safari has a UI bug since forever. I regularly get the wrong favicon in specific sites, for example ars technica favicon in reddit
My hacker news icon has been stuck as the icon for a weather site that I sometimes check. It’s been stuck that way for close to a year now, and has survived an iOS update too.
It persists across profiles and into private browsing mode.