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Keep your Identity Small: Privacy-preserving Client-side Fingerprinting. (arXiv:2309.07563v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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Device fingerprinting is a widely used technique that allows a third party to
identify a particular device. Applications of device fingerprinting include
authentication, attacker identification, or software license binding. Device
fingerprinting is also used on the web as a method for identifying users.
Unfortunately, one of its most widespread uses is to identify users visiting
different websites and thus build their browsing history. This constitutes a
specific type of web tracking that poses a threat to users' privacy. While many …
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