(link to peer-reviewed article: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ndss2017_02B-3_Cao_paper.pdf?ref=franklinetech.com)
from the study, emphasis mine:
"In this paper, we propose a browser fingerprinting technique that can track users not only within a single browser but also across different browsers on the same machine. Specifically, our approach utilizes many novel OS and hardware level features, such as those from graphics cards, CPU, and installed writing scripts. We extract these features by asking browsers to perform tasks that rely on corresponding OS and hardware
functionalities.
Our evaluation shows that our approach can successfully identify 99.24% of users as opposed to 90.84% for state of the art on single-browser fingerprinting against the same dataset. Further, our approach can achieve higher uniqueness rate than the only cross-browser approach in the literature with similar stability."
So much for my "compartmentalization", multi-browser approach to cookies, tracking, and corporate profiles....an utter load of nonsense in my brain, apparently.
If three grad students can tie me uniquely to three browswers, thus making me a unified specimen then it's on to containers and Firejail.
Not a nutter by any means, just want to be left alone, if one can be online...
edit: I realize good extensions that blur noise etc may take their 99 down to what, 89? sigh
