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Chrome extensions are unintentionally exposing an exploit that can be used for advanced browser fingerprinting.
In this article, we’ll demonstrate how we managed to create a unique visitor identifier using the last modified timestamps of extension files.
Fingerprint does not use this technique in our products, and we do not provide cross-site tracking services.
Last-modified value is used as a highly unique identifier to track the browser across the internet.
Chrome developers tried to prevent this behavior 11 years ago .
This issue remains open for exploitation to this day and allows any website or malicious actor to track a browser across websites with high uniqueness.
The Google Docs Offline extension is installed and enabled by default, it is a great method to fingerprint Chromium -based browser users.
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