Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking

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

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-9576-6_17

Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking

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

Sardar Patel University
Soonchunhyang University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Mobile Internet Security
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2022
Pages	236-247
ISBN (Print)	978-981-16-9575-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9576-6_17
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	5^th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 7 Oct 2021 → 9 Oct 2021 Conference number: 5 https://www.manuscriptlink.com/society/kiisc/conference/mobisec2021

Conference

Conference	5^th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security
Number	5
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	07/10/2021 → 09/10/2021
Internet address	https://www.manuscriptlink.com/society/kiisc/conference/mobisec2021

Series	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1544
ISSN	1865-0929

Keywords

Privacy
User tracking
Anonymization
Browser fingerprinting
Fingerprinting defender
Chrome extension

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Moad, D, Sihag, V, Choudhary, G, Duguma, DG & You, I 2022, Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking. in Mobile Internet Security. Springer, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1544, pp. 236-247, 5^th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 07/10/2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9576-6_17

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