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You can find here useful links about browser fingerprinting : browser fingerprinting definitions resources, press articles, technical presentations, scientific articles and other resources

General definitions of fingerprinting

• Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms (Chromium project)
• Fingerprinting (Mozilla)
• Device fingerprint (Wikipedia)

Fingerprinting in the press

• Browser 'fingerprints' help track users (BBC)
• In French - Publicité : une nouvelle technique pour pister les internautes (Le Monde)
• In French - An article in the Clubic tech magazine
• In French - A post in the Framasoft blog
• In French - A video about work at the Open World Forum 2014

Technical presentations

• Browser Fingerprinting and the Online-Tracking Arms Race (IEEE Spectrum)
• The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild(KU Leuven)

Scientific articles

• Hot or not: Revealing hidden services by their clock skew

  by J. Murdoch, Steven
  2006 - Conference on Computer & Communications Security

• How unique is your web browser?

  by Peter Eckersley
  2010 - Conference on Privacy enhancing technologies

• User Tracking on the Web via Cross-Browser Fingerprinting

  by Boda, Károly & Máté Foldes, Ádám & Gulyás, Gábor & Imre, Sandor
  2011 - Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems

• Pixel Perfect: Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML5

  by Keaton Mowery and Hovav Shacham
  2012 - Web 2.0 Security & Privacy

• Fast and Reliable Browser Identification with JavaScript Engine Fingerprinting

  by M. Mulazzani, S. Schrittwieser, P. Reschl, M. Leithner, E. Weippl, M. Huber
  2013 - Web 2.0 Security & Privacy

• FPDetective: dusting the web for fingerprinters

  by Acar, Gunes and Juarez, Marc and Nikiforakis, Nick and Diaz, Claudia and Gürses, Seda and Piessens, Frank and Preneel, Bart
  2013 - Conference on Computer & Communications Security

• Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-based Device Fingerprinting

  by N. Nikiforakis, A. Kapravelos, W. Joosen, C. Kruegel, F. Piessens and G. Vigna
  2013 - Symposium on Security and Privacy

• Improved Website Fingerprinting on Tor

  by Wang, Tao and Goldberg, Ian
  2013 - Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

• The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild

  by Acar, Gunes and Eubank, Christian and Englehardt, Steven and Juarez, Marc and Narayanan, Arvind and Diaz, Claudia
  2014 - Conference on Computer and Communications Security

• The leaking battery : A privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API

  by Olejnik, Lukasz and Acar, Gunes and Castelluccia, Claude and Diaz, Claudia
  2015 - Workshop on Data Privacy Management, and Security Assurance

• Fingerprinting web users through font metrics

  by Fifield, David & Egelman, Serge
  2015 - Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security

• Mobile Device Fingerprinting Considered Harmful for Risk-based Authentication

  by Spooren, Jan & Preuveneers, Davy & Joosen, Wouter
  2015 - European Workshop on System Security

• Beauty and the Beast: Diverting modern web browsers to build unique browser fingerprints

  by P. Laperdrix, W. Rudametkin and B. Baudry
  2016 - Symposium on Security and Privacy

• (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features

  by Cao, Yinzhi & Li, Song & Wijmans, Erik
  2017 - Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

• Discovering Browser Extensions via Web Accessible Resources

  by Sjosten, Alexander and Van Acker, Steven and Sabelfeld, Andrei
  2017 - Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

• XHOUND: Quantifying the Fingerprintability of Browser Extensions

  by O. Starov and N. Nikiforakis
  2017 - Symposium on Security and Privacy

• FP-STALKER: Tracking Browser Fingerprint Evolutions

  by Antoine Vastel, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy
  2018 - Symposium on Security and Privacy

• Clock Around the Clock: Time-Based Device Fingerprinting

  by Sanchez-Rola, Iskander and Santos, Igor and Balzarotti, Davide
  2018 - Conference on Computer and Communications Security

• FP-Scanner: The Privacy Implications of BrowserFingerprint Inconsistencies

  by Antoine Vastel, Pierre Laperdrix, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy
  2018 - USENIX Security Symposium

• Hiding in the Crowd: an Analysis of the Effectiveness ofBrowser Fingerprinting at Large Scale

  by Alejandro Gómez-Boix, Pierre Laperdrix, Benoit Baudry
  2018 - World Wide Web Conference

• Don’t count me out: On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem

  by Vikas Mishra, Pierre Laperdrix, Antoine Vastel, Walter Rudametkin, Romain Rouvoy, Martin Lopatka
  2020 - The Web Conference

Other resources

• Panopticlick (EFF)
• Cross-browser fingerprinting test
• Browser spy
• Do Not Track documentary
• Fingerprint Central
• Unique Machine