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Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking

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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.

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  1. Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, India

    Deepali Moad & Vikas Sihag

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Gaurav Choudhary

  3. Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, 31538, South Korea

    Daniel Gerbi Duguma & Ilsun You

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  2. Sangmyung University, Cheonan, Korea (Republic of)

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  3. Dankook University, Yongin, Korea (Republic of)

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  4. University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

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Moad, D., Sihag, V., Choudhary, G., Duguma, D.G., You, I. (2022). Fingerprint Defender: Defense Against Browser-Based User Tracking. In: You, I., Kim, H., Youn, TY., Palmieri, F., Kotenko, I. (eds) Mobile Internet Security. MobiSec 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1544. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9576-6_17

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