Different Browser Fingerprints
Shubhneet Goel
Consulting Chief Technology Officer | Fractional CTO | Tech Architect | IT Consultant | Startup Entrepreneur | Full Stack Developer | Cloud Architect | Technical Consultant | Digital Marketing Automation Expert
Browser Fingerprints, These are the various browser fingerprints I have worked upon. If you want to develop a mechanism to track your website users with these fingerprints, I can help you in doing so in Web Development. Also, If you are dealing with the website that is tracking you with these fingerprints and you want to spoof these fingerprints, I can help you in doing so in Testing & Automation.
- IP Address : Your IP address is like your physical address and that is how most of the websites track you from browsing their websites.
- Geolocation : Chrome & Firefox browsers have API's using which websites can retrieve your geolocation.
- Time zone : Websites can get your timezone easily by Javascript which reads from browser apis which further reads from regional settings of your operating system.
- WebRTC IP address : WebRTC establishes a connection through UDP protocol, it is not routed through proxy servers that you may use in a browser.
- Navigator Parameters : JS.Navigator is a set of Javascript objects that stores various parameters and their values that describe specifics of a computer it executes on like User-agent, Platform, Screen resolution, Language, DoNotTrack, BuildID, HardwareConcurrenc and OSCPU.
- Fontsts Enumeration & Fingerprintings, It is a set of identification methods based on what fonts you have and how they are drawn inside your browser.
- Media devices : Media devices information, there are basically two ways it can leak your information without your permission to websites one is your media device id and second is the number and type of devices attached to your browser.
- Canvas Fingerprint : Canvas is an HTML5 API that is used to draw 2D graphics and animations on a web page however websites can use that information to obtain unique fingerprint of your machine and can identify you.
- AudioContext Fingerprint : It is a hash derivative of your machine's audio stack. So it ask your browser to simulate a sinusoid function on how it plays audio files based on the audio setting and hardware you have installed and use that to create a fingerprint.
- Webgl Fingerprint : Webgl is a Javascript browser API for rendering 3D graphics on a web page. Websites can use them to fingerprint your device.
- Cookie Fingerprints : Websites store a cookie in your browser and identify you based upon your cookie and it's history.
- Keyboard Typing Fingerprints : Websites store your keystroke patterns to identify you.
- Mouse Movement Fingerprints : Websites store the interactions with mouse over events that you perform on their website with your mouse on their websites to track you.
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