How does this keep happening? It is a mystery.

Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2014/10/23/ecommerce-study/

The actual paper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cbw/static/pdf/imc151-hannak.pdf...

"As shown in Figure 11, Travelocity alters hotel search results for users who browse from iOS devices." (In particular, alters the prices shown to the user).

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google. Contribute to Eloston/ungoogled-chromium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Download Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans for Firefox. Save time by asking Buster to solve captchas for you.

This post presents a crawl of the top Alexa 500K to study the use and the diversity of the canvas fingerprints on the web.

I’m on Team Firefox.

Yes, even the Tor browser can be spied on by this nasty code

Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.

Block unwanted sites from your Google, DuckDuckGo, Startpage.com, Bing and Yahoo search results.

Where Am I Right Now, Asking 'Where Am I?' or 'My Current Location?'. This web detects your location, and display your location on google map (latitude, longitude, and LOCATION NAME).

Inox patchset tries to provide a minimal Chromium based browser with focus on privacy by disabling data transmission to Google.

We show how third-party scripts exploit browsers’ built-in login managers (also called password managers) to retrieve and exfiltrate user identifiers without user awareness. To the best of our knowledge, our research is the first to show that login managers are being abused by third-party scripts for the purposes of web tracking.

Finally, one of the major browsers is doing something about canvas fingerprinting

Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery

Firefox respects your desire to do other things while you browse the web. Firefox doesn’t use as much RAM as Chrome. And it doesn’t hog your ability to do more things at once. Instead, Firefox strikes a balance by using four content processes at any given time. Why four? Because four is the right number for many internet users: an amount that apportions enough RAM for superior browser performance, while also leaving more RAM for other apps and programs to use.

Fluxfonts is a specialized tool that attempts to tackle the privacy concerns raised by the possibility to collect information about the fonts installed on a system. Such information can be used to uniquely identify a system. With Fluxfonts, new fonts are randomly created and removed to prevent the same fingerprint from being recreated.

Font fingerprinting is a technique which is difficult and usually inconvenient for users to circumvent by other means. Fluxfonts is fully automated and runs in the background. By effectively always having a new unique fingerprint, it should prevent a system from being (re‐)identified between applications and web sites/‐browsers.

Chrome, Safari, Opera and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds