Comment by triceratops
11 hours ago
It's not a naive question. This comment says it's not possible to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905213
11 hours ago
It's not a naive question. This comment says it's not possible to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905213
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...
The webpage would have to scan the entire UUID space to create this fingerprint, which seems unlikely.
Just have a database of UUIDs. Seems pretty trivial to generate and sort as it's only 16 bytes each.
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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.
You just need to open so many instances and tabs in each instance that it crashes every couple days
I restart my browser basically every day.
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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.