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mh-today at 12:38 AM3 repliesview on HN

On the other hand, disabling WebGPU is offering entropy for fingerprinting, too. A vanishingly small % of users will have done so.


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xoatoday at 1:25 AM

>On the other hand, disabling WebGPU is offering entropy for fingerprinting, too. A vanishingly small % of users will have done so.

I think near any anti-fingerprinting efforts though presume some floor level of system security and stability. If some particular hardware exposure feature lets attackers run arbitrary low level timing and hardware testing code or crash the system or break the sandbox the game is likely over for most people.

An extra bit of entropy isn't meaningless sure, but at some point there should be some weighing of absolute attack surface against it right? Some features just seem inherently anti-privacy/anti-security and one might just have to try to deal with that via other approaches.

autoexectoday at 12:59 AM

True, but randomizing other data points will keep your fingerprint unique which should help prevent associating your activity across sites/sessions.

seanytoday at 12:59 AM

don't some of the adblock extensions randomly modify the fingerprinting you can get from this?

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