Browser fingerprinting, anti-fingerprinting and user autonomy

Modern browsers offer a lot of APIs (features) that are tightly integrated with hardware: WebGL, WebAudio, WebAssembly, to name a few.

However, most webpages that use these APIs do not use them for their intended purpose (such as to show 3D graphics, manipulate audio signals, run near-native bytecode for accelerated processing.) Instead, most webpages use these APIs to track, identify and surveil users.

In this talk, I will share my research on browser fingerprinting technologies, anti-fingerprinting techniques and strategies employed by major browsers. Finally, I will share potential solutions that I have found and built.