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jptech
on Feb 17, 2022
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WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Majo...
Not an attack vector per se, but largely used for fingerprinting.
sph
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What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?
cookiengineer
on Feb 17, 2022
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> What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?
HTML tags.
mmastrac
on Feb 17, 2022
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I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not, but most likely not true.
egberts1
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Yes, WebGL remains a large surface area of an attack vector.
WithinReason
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Disabling it makes your fingerprint more unique
jptech
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Giving out a Null value has less entropy than a unique value. It may also be likely that it gets dropped when computing the overall fingerprint.
WithinReason
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if 20% of people explicitly disable it then it carries log_2(5) = 2.32 bits of entropy so it's not going to get dropped.
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