Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

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  • curl-impersonate

    curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox

  • I haven’t seen a custom build of Wget, but for Curl there is curl-impersonate[1].

    [1] https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

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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.

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  • PasswordPusher

    🔐 An application to securely communicate passwords over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed. Track who, what and when.

  • (1) A tool like for example https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher self-hosted offers a way for the user to detect, whether their password has been seen before.

    (2) Are you missing the point? "That is how it usually works." -- So why then send a password to an e-mail inbox, like I said a location often controlled by third party and often one with no good record of respecting privacy, if you can completely avoid that?

    (3) But your so called security is observed often enough to result in inaccessible accounts. "Extra strict" usually means something along the lines of "oh, now I am going to require your phone number, to send you a message on a second channel to make sure" or similar things. Again circumventing consent, because now it becomes an extortion, extracting more personal data, so that the user can access their account. You so called security makes for a real shitty user experience and punishes the user for ever switchting their browser.

  • fingerprintjs

    Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.

  • Strange, `privacy.resistFingerprinting = true` did not solve the issue for me, i'm still fingerprinted by https://fingerprint.com/. Even after clearing all cache and restarting Firefox.

    Adding the extensions `Canvasblocker` and `Temporariy Containers` did solve the issue though.

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