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ranger_dangertoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

You can also fingerprint browsers profile-wide across sessions without any JS, CSS or even HTML, using the favicon: https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie


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snailmailmantoday at 1:21 AM

I think most browsers have patched this out? i didnt do super concrete tests, but at least on my machine their demo is failing to fingerprint me across private browsing/incognito sessions as they claim. Tested in firefox and edge.

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zzo38computertoday at 3:39 AM

Some users disable favicons; I am one of them (although that is main because I do not use them, rather than due to that).