Web Browser Fingerprinting Using Only Cascading Style Sheets

Many commercial Websites employ Web browser fingerprinting to track visitors using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers, JavaScript, and other methods. Although a user can disable JavaScript or utilize a prevention tool to avoid being tracked, countermeasures against Web browser fingerprinting...

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Published in2015 10th International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA) pp. 57 - 63
Main Authors Takei, Naoki, Saito, Takamichi, Takasu, Ko, Yamada, Tomotaka
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2015
Subjects
Browsers
Cascading style sheets
Engines
Fingerprint recognition
Media
Rendering (computer graphics)
Web Browser Fingerprinting
Web servers
Web Tracking
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Summary:Many commercial Websites employ Web browser fingerprinting to track visitors using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers, JavaScript, and other methods. Although a user can disable JavaScript or utilize a prevention tool to avoid being tracked, countermeasures against Web browser fingerprinting using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have not been established. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method of fingerprinting that employs only CSS and discuss the effectiveness of our method.
DOI:10.1109/BWCCA.2015.105