Top 12 JavaScript Fingerprinting Projects

browser-fingerprinting

8 3,830 1.0 JavaScript

Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures 🚿. How to defeat anti-bot system 👻 and get around browser fingerprinting scripts 🕵️‍♂️ when scraping the web?

Project mention: A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13

Yes, there is a lot written about it. Here is one link I have saved:
https://github.com/niespodd/browser-fingerprinting

privacybadger

176 3,031 9.4 JavaScript

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

Project mention: Can anyone verify this information about privacy? | /r/onlinesecurity2023 | 2023-12-04

~Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our site from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins, like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
nothing-private

4 2,120 3.8 JavaScript

Do you think you are safe using private browsing or incognito mode?. :smile: :imp: This will prove that you're wrong. Previously hosted at nothingprivate.ml

Project mention: LCD, Please – de-make of “Papers, please”, celebrating 10 years since launch | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-09

>Oh, you can also allow canvas fingerprinting, but that seems like a bad idea - maybe in a separate firefox profile just for sites like this one..
No it won't help. That is big problem with finger printing. It basically logs your computer hardward with the profile.
So no matter how many times you make new profiles. This can be mitigated via VM. However with bugs such as zenbleed, VM may not be enough.
Nothing is private has a good demo. https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private

CanvasBlocker

13 1,083 8.0 JavaScript

A Firefox extension to protect from being fingerprinted.

Project mention: 6. 别让 HTML Canvas 泄露你的设备特征 | /r/primecitizens | 2023-07-02

不如这个 https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/

AmIUnique

333 674 0.0 JavaScript

Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet

Project mention: Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16

I go the opposite way. I trust a company that takes my money to pay its costs to keep my privacy. As opposed to a company who "doesn't know who I am". (Apart from unique fingerprint https://amiunique.org/ over many queries over many months)

dark-knowledge

14 513 4.6 JavaScript

😈📚 A curated library of research papers and presentations for counter-detection and web privacy enthusiasts.
scriptsafe

4 494 0.0 JavaScript

a browser extension to bring security and privacy to chrome, firefox, and opera
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
LocateJS

22 313 0.0 JavaScript

Check if your location is actually hidden
portsscan

2 128 3.4 JavaScript

A web client port-scanner written in GO, that supports the WASM/WASI interface for Browser WebAssembly runtime execution.

Project mention: ports.sh | /r/netsec | 2023-05-22

browser-with-fingerprints

1 85 6.9 JavaScript

Anonymous automation with fingerprint replacement technology.

Project mention: Bypassing DataDome? | /r/webscraping | 2023-07-11

You can look into this package to change your fingerprint ( I have not checked it at all) https://github.com/CheshireCaat/browser-with-fingerprints

epictracker

1 20 3.7 JavaScript

A demo of how can I track you using fingerprinting and some automated lookups and stuff, using modern Javascript APIs
digital-fingerprint

1 9 0.0 JavaScript

Check your data which may be stolen every time you visit a site. ⚠️

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

JavaScript Fingerprinting related posts

6. 别让 HTML Canvas 泄露你的设备特征

1 project | /r/primecitizens | 2 Jul 2023
Ask HN: Refusing all cookies, still targeted by ads. How?

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2023
question about canvas size

1 project | /r/privacy | 12 May 2023
Are these anti-fingerprinting extensions actually open source?

4 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 16 Apr 2023
Reddit just "recommended" me a community about the city of Bari, which I googled on Google Images yesterday for the first time in my life. How did it know?

6 projects | /r/privacy | 18 Apr 2023
Privacyguide makes Mullvad Browser number 1 in recommendation - what are your thoughts?

2 projects | /r/browsers | 15 Apr 2023
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Fingerprinting projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	browser-fingerprinting	3,830
2	privacybadger	3,031
3	nothing-private	2,120
4	CanvasBlocker	1,083
5	AmIUnique	674
6	dark-knowledge	513
7	scriptsafe	494
8	LocateJS	313
9	portsscan	128
10	browser-with-fingerprints	85
11	epictracker	20
12	digital-fingerprint	9