How can a site see what extensions you have?
How can a site see what extensions you have?
One of the things I've seen mentioned before is that installing too many extensions can make you more unique, and thus have a negative influence on your fingerprint. This got me curious, how exactly do sites detect which extensions you have anyway? Can they outright read your list of extensions?
Furthermore, do all extensions make you more unique? I guess the answer would depend on the answer to the first question (surely, if they can just outright see your list, then the answer would be yes), but lets say you install something that seems rather innocuous, like Transparent Standalone Images, for example. Can a site see that this is installed / does it make your fingerprint more unique?
explanation
Web sites do not have any way to enumerate or query your installed extensions, and they cannot directly "see" the content scripts injected by extensions. However, some extensions do modify pages in a way that scripts in the page could recognize as being the work of a particular extension, assuming the owners of the site care to research and check for such things.One particular issue is that an extension may insert a path into the document to a page or image in the extension itself. Firefox assigns a randomized UUID to the extension at install time, and the path uses this UUID. On the plus side, this may prevent the site from associating the URL with a specific extension. On the minus side, at least in theory, a site could detect this weird URL in the page and use that for fingerprinting. See: How to prevent fingerprinting via Add-on UUID?.
is there anything else that I should notice?
Thank you!
Answered by @listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io
Web pages are not allowed to list your extensions. They can indirectly surmise you have certain extensions based on how your requests differ from expectations. For example, if they have advertisements, but your browser never actually makes any requests to load the images, CSS, JS or HTML for the advertisements, they can deduce you have an ad-blocker. That’s a datapoint they now have to ID you: “has an ad-blocker”Now let’s say they have an ad they know AdBlockPlus allows, but uBlock Origin doesn’t. They see your browser doesn’t load that ad. Another datapoint: “Not using AdBlockPlus”.
Based on what requests go back and forth between your browser and their servers, they map out a unique fingerprint.
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The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.
Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.
I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!
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It folds like this:
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impounded, just flattened into the ground with a big tungsten rod
This seems like a really biased source, the domain is .ir, which is Iran.
I recommend sources that are not state-backed from a warring county.
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In that case you are best off with Kubuntu, since UE for Linux is distributed as a .deb.
If you prefer to compile the engine yourself, then you can use anything you like, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is worth a look since it’s a rolling distro and stays up-to-date (especially handy for GPU drivers).
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Funny how every time the GIOP does something awful we see a lot of BoTh SIdes ArE The SAMe memes.
No actual plans or ideas, but lots of memes telling people not to vote.
Is the response for "if was Kamala nothing of this would happen".
"The strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world." would do the same fucking shit
you missed the point. democrats are not leftists and will be just as bad.
don't blame leftists for how fascists coopt an electoral system in their favour.
leftists aren't really voting for trump though. most leftists i know vote for the lesser evil, but with the consciousness it ain't doing much.
it’s impossible to understand why this criminal asshole is in the WhiteHouse and not in Jail since tears ago
the way fascism coopts the masses and capitalism lets it, thats literally fascism running its course. its been documented throughout history.
it comes up when capitalism is in crisis and the people aren't aware of the class war being fought against them. part of that comes from thinking politics is just voting for the lesser evil.
leftists offer plenty of solutions starting with unionization. and much more depending on which poison you pick.
first things first though you need to notice you won't be able to vote fascism away.
You just fucking said you can’t vote away fascism. So if fascism is already here, which it is, you’re saying it can’t be voted away, which HEAVILY implies that one shouldn’t vote cuz it’s pointless; fascism can’t be voted away, so why vote?
Do you need any other explanations, you obtuse jackass pretending not to know how language works?
thats your conclusion. i literally don't care if you bother voting.
i even stated this much, how is that so hard to understand? do you need me to clarify something? why the fuck are you that angry?
Leftists are always telling you to read theory and organize. Here's a Marxist-Leninist intro reading list, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation is a good org to join.
Nowhere in this meme does it say that “both sides are the same”. It’s (correctly) showing how both parties don’t give a shit about the working class.
Republicans are horrible but you can’t expect the Democrats to save or help you from them after we have tons of evidence showing they will also break strikes, pass right wing immigration laws, attack protesters, support genocide, and do almost nothing to stop rising fascism.
Also trying to diminish supplying and funding a genocide to just “a single foreign policy issue” is pretty fucked up and not even accurate. Leftists were willing to overlook hundreds of issues we had with Kamala as a candidate if she could just do the bare fucking minimum of not actively funding and supplying a genocide and she couldn’t even do that.
Fascism and liberalism are not distinct ideologies, but the same ideology in different circumstances. Liberalism is the nice mask, fascism is the brutal one, and Capitalism will use whichever the bourgoeisie feels is necessary to maintain control and profits.
Critiquing liberalism is a "left" thing, not an "alt-left" thing, and I don't even know what that means.
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in reply to Holeheadou92984 • • •everything you do to customize your browser makes your browser fingerprint unique. but you have a mostly unique fingerprint due to things you arent considering as well. system related stuff that your browser tells about you.
you have some options. 1) there are addons that limit privacy issues, 2) use a local web proxy, im using squid proxy for example just have it running on an old laptop. Optionally, I would also say, from a privacy standpoint look into DNS blackholing pihole, unbound, etc, and there are plenty of other things.
my favorite addons are ublock, privacy badger, i run noScript which is probably more painful than most are willing to put up with but I have heard that jShelter is a good compromise.
Holeheadou92984
in reply to relic4322 • • •relic4322
in reply to Holeheadou92984 • • •The problem with hardening your system is that you become more identifieable unless you provide fake data. For example, here are my test results from coveryourtracks.eff.org
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 2054.58 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Holeheadou92984
in reply to relic4322 • • •Postmortal_Pop
in reply to relic4322 • • •relic4322
in reply to Postmortal_Pop • • •Yes, you can give fake info. I would say thats kinda the next step. Harden your browser and associated tech stack so you are secure. Then provide fake data that is generic enough so that it blends in. firefox or chrome standard agent, windows 11, etc.
for example
deviceatlas.com/blog/list-of-u…
List of User-Agent strings 2025
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in reply to Holeheadou92984 • • •Answered by @listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io
relic4322
in reply to Holeheadou92984 • • •plugins are definitely detectable.
just came across this, worth checking out your browser security.
coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Cover Your Tracks
coveryourtracks.eff.orgskarn
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