Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking

Deepali Moad, Vikas Sihag, Gaurav Choudhary, Daniel Gerbi Duguma, Ilsun You

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Abstract

It is difficult to be anonymous online with user activities always under the scanner. Multiple identifiers and their combinatories are used for user identification. While browsing, trackers keep a record of artifacts such as OS version, screen resolution, and fonts enabled. Browser fingerprinting tries to identify a user’s browser uniquely, without using cookies or other stateful signatures. We propose a browser fingerprint defender tool to anonymize user browsers. It creates captures current user attributes and anonymizes them before sending a request to the server. It also gives current browser fingerprint attributes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Internet Security
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2022
Pages236-247
ISBN (Print)978-981-16-9575-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event5th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 7 Oct 20219 Oct 2021
Conference number: 5
https://www.manuscriptlink.com/society/kiisc/conference/mobisec2021

Conference

Conference5th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security
Number5
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period07/10/202109/10/2021
Internet address
SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1544
ISSN1865-0929

Keywords

  • Privacy
  • User tracking
  • Anonymization
  • Browser fingerprinting
  • Fingerprinting defender
  • Chrome extension

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