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Wordsmithing for 2025 #68

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tomrittervg opened this issue Jan 17, 2025 · 0 comments
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Wordsmithing for 2025 #68

tomrittervg opened this issue Jan 17, 2025 · 0 comments

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I think we can make several small wording improvements in the document to update it for 2025. Much of the text dates back 7+ years and it's a testament to its quality it has stood up so well, but I think there are a few things that can be updated to speak more accurately about the current landscape or more strongly based on what we have seen. Specifically:

  • Strengthening wording to describe fingerprinting as a threat
  • Mentioning VPNs as a common privacy tool that does not help
  • Stripping all the mentions of plugins. Kind of a pet peeve of mine - lots of fingerprinting papers talk about plugins being a high source of entropy and that was once the case but is now standardized as a constant.
  • Mentioning advances in CSS-based fingerprinting
  • Mentioning the differences between the old school of "I have a fingerprint, it's this hash" and the new school of secret sever-side fuzzy matching you can't inspect
  • Mentioning User Gesture as a gating factor and providing examples
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