alt Hacker NewsThe OP's link is timing out over Tor for me, but the Wayback[1] version loaded without issue.
Also, does anyone know of any researchers in the academic world focusing on this issue? We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be named after a pedophile on this subject, but we are more looking for professors at universities or pure research labs ala MSR or PARC than activists working for NGOs, however pure their praxis :-)
As privacy geeks, we have become fascinated with the topic -- it seems that while we can achieve security through extensions like noscript or ublock origin or firefox containers (our personal "holy trinity"), anonymity slips through our fingers due to fingerprinting issues. (Especially if we lump stylometry in the big bucket of "fingerprinting".)
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Mozilla is working on it. (I know you said 'Academic', but we publish papers sometimes too.)
yes, there’s an active area of research on web fingerprint, both attacks and defences. Look at conferences like PETS for instance
what are you referring to with that EFF app part?
>We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be named after a pedophile on this subject
You bring this up like it's a well known incident, but my googling can find no evidence of it? The only reason not say the name of the project would be if it's common knowledge, but it's not?
ChatGPT research reckons you're making it up, and I'd be curious if you have evidence to the contrary?