If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely ...

One of the perks of using Chrome is a wide assortment of browser extensions at your disposal. Including themes and apps, there are over 200,000 of them in the Chrome Web Store. There's strength in ...

Why it matters: Fingerprinting algorithms can provide a website with unique IDs on its visitors. It's a powerful tracking technology that requires equally powerful countermeasures, but sometimes ...

In my previous post, I showed how LinkedIn detects browser extensions as part of its client-side fingerprinting strategy.

You've probably heard the phrase "if you're not paying for it, you're the product." With free web services, that's especially true. Advertisers and data brokers ...

In fraud and bot detection, people usually think of fingerprinting as the classic browser or device fingerprint. This comes from techniques that use JavaScript and HTTP signals to recognize a device ...

You’ve heard me say it a hundred times: Clear your cookies, block third-party trackers, use private browsing. But here’s something new, something creepier. Now, even after nuking cookies from orbit ...

Research shows the type of browser, plug-ins, and font data enable Web sites to create a unique portrait of most visitors Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox ...