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0 pointstriceratops1mo ago0 comments

It's not a naive question. This comment says it's not possible to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905213

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awesome_dude1mo ago

Oh, it's (re)randomised upon each restart, whew, thanks for the heads up

edit: er, I think that that also suggests that I need to restart firefox more often...

tech234a1mo ago

The webpage would have to scan the entire UUID space to create this fingerprint, which seems unlikely.

throwaway8080811mo ago

Just have a database of UUIDs. Seems pretty trivial to generate and sort as it's only 16 bytes each.

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Ghoelian1mo ago

I don't think that's the case. I have the Earth View extension installed which shows a random google earth image.

I have this set as my homepage in Firefox as moz-extension://<extension-id>/index.html, and this has not changed since installing the extension. The page still works.

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jorvi1mo ago

Doing it on restart makes the mitigation de facto useless. How often do you have 10, 20, 30d (or even longer) desktop uptime these days? And no one is regularly restarting their core applications when their desktop is still up.

Enjoy the fingerprinting.

tristan9571mo ago

I restart my browser basically every day.

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Thiez1mo ago

There isn't enough energy in the solar system to count to 2^128. Now a uuid v4 number "only" has 2^122 bits of entropy. Regardless, you cannot realistically scan the uuid domain. It's not even a matter of Moore's law, it is a limitation of physics that will stand until computers are no longer made of matter.

recury1mo ago

You just need to open so many instances and tabs in each instance that it crashes every couple days

eek21211mo ago

Umm, I restart my PC about once a week for security and driver updates.

If you don't, you have a lot more to worry about beyond fingerprinting...

Oh and I'm on LINUX (CachyOS) mind you.

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awesome_dude1mo ago

Oh, it's (re)randomised upon each restart, whew, thanks for the heads up

edit: er, I think that that also suggests that I need to restart firefox more often...

tech234a1mo ago

The webpage would have to scan the entire UUID space to create this fingerprint, which seems unlikely.

throwaway8080811mo ago

Just have a database of UUIDs. Seems pretty trivial to generate and sort as it's only 16 bytes each.

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Ghoelian1mo ago

I don't think that's the case. I have the Earth View extension installed which shows a random google earth image.

I have this set as my homepage in Firefox as moz-extension://<extension-id>/index.html, and this has not changed since installing the extension. The page still works.

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jorvi1mo ago

Enjoy the fingerprinting.

tristan9571mo ago

I restart my browser basically every day.

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Thiez1mo ago

recury1mo ago

You just need to open so many instances and tabs in each instance that it crashes every couple days

eek21211mo ago

Umm, I restart my PC about once a week for security and driver updates.

If you don't, you have a lot more to worry about beyond fingerprinting...

Oh and I'm on LINUX (CachyOS) mind you.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse