How ad blockers can be used for browser fingerprinting

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  • 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.

  • Your chosen selectors should contain no < embed>, no fixed positioning, no pseudo classes and no combinators. The offsetParent check will not work with either < embed> or fixed positioning. Selectors with combinators require a sophisticated script for building test HTML elements, and since there are only a few selectors with combinators, it isn't worth writing such a script. Finally, you should test only unique selectors across all the filters to avoid duplicate work. You can see a script that we use to parse the unique selectors from the filters here.

  • easylist

    EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)

  • EasyList: includes EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie List, EasyList Germany and many others.

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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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  • murmurHash3.js

    MurmurHash3, in JavaScript.

  • // See the snippet above getBlockedSelectors(...) .then(blockedSelectors => { // See the murmurHash3 implementation at // https://github.com/karanlyons/murmurHash3.js const fingerprint = murmurHash3.x86.hash128( JSON.stringify(blockedSelectors) ) console.log(fingerprint) })

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