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FB-Block Firefox plugin
The paper „FP-Block : usable web privacy by controlling browser fingerprinting“ (presented in session 4A) is about a FireFox plugin, the authors developed. You can find here the open source plugin for downloading.
Online tracking is big business. Various companies are so widely used on the Web, that many (if not most) pages a casual user visits will embed their products. Examples include Facebook (‚like‘ button), Youtube (videos), but also less visible aspects such as JQuery (popular Javascript library). Whenever a browser encounters such embedded contents, the embedded contents can determine the browser’s „fingerprint“ – a set of attribute values of the browser (resolution, language, OS, browser version, etc). As such, they can track a browser across each and every page where they are embedded.
The FP-Block Firefox plugin ensures that each visited website is provided with a unique fingerprint. This ensures that all embedded parties also see that unique fingerprint, and thus no longer can track users across different Websites.
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FP-Block
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