The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages(simedw.com)

406 points by simedw 1 year ago | 177 comments

Blog post introducing Spegel, a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that passes HTML through an LLM and renders the result as markdown in the terminal.

CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years(browserbase.com)

50 points by harsehaj 4 months ago | 39 comments

The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service(browserless.io)

150 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 131 comments

OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive(senteguard.com)

40 points by djwide 9 months ago | 40 comments

DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed(stalw.art)

78 points by StalwartLabs 3 months ago | 58 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies(royfish.dev)

694 points by royfish 14 days ago | 333 comments

Interactive post demonstrating browser fingerprinting by assigning a persistent nickname derived from audio, GPU, WebGL, canvas, time zone and hardware signals.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities(fingerprint.com)

888 points by danpinto 6 months ago | 269 comments

Fingerprint blog post describing a stable Firefox identifier, reportedly via IndexedDB, that can link a user's separate private Tor Browser identities.

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user(brutecat.com)

554 points by brutecat 1 year ago | 174 comments

A security researcher's write-up describing how to bruteforce the phone number linked to any Google account, with a terminal demo of the exploit tool.

Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID(nmattia.com)

61 points by civilchaos 5 days ago | 49 comments

A blog post by Nicolas Mattia explaining how to set up SSH keys on macOS that are protected by Touch ID.