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Block Tracking via etags and cached scripts #536

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tomlowenthal opened this issue Jul 13, 2018 · 2 comments
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Block Tracking via etags and cached scripts #536

tomlowenthal opened this issue Jul 13, 2018 · 2 comments
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@tomlowenthal tomlowenthal commented Jul 13, 2018

Sites often circumvent 3rd-party cookie blocking with unique etags, cached scripts and other methods to persist identifiers over time. We should disable these methods. https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mechanisms

Replaces brave/browser-laptop#1473
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@bbondy bbondy added this to the Backlog milestone Jul 26, 2018
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@da2x da2x commented Oct 28, 2018

Disabling all caching is an extremely privileged view. This will run through people’s data caps must faster and cost them money.
@rebron rebron modified the milestone: 1.x Backlog Feb 7, 2019
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@nickpoorman nickpoorman commented Jul 9, 2019 •
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Still seems to be an issue. POC here: http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/
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