In this paper, we investigate the current state of the art of browser fingerprinting countermeasures to study the inconsistencies they may introduce in altered finger- prints, and how this may impact user privacy. To do so, we introduce FP-Scanner as a new test suite that explores browser fingerprint inconsistencies to detect potential alterations, and we show that we are capable of detecting countermeasures from the inconsistencies they introduce. Beyond spotting altered browser fingerprints...| www.usenix.org
Every time there's a Hacker News thread about bots, bot detection, or CAPTCHAs, a familiar complaint shows up: people using VPNs, ad blockers, Firefox forks, or privacy tools get bombarded with CAPTCHAs or blocked entirely. It feels like modern anti-bot systems are punishing users just for trying to protect their| The Castle blog
This is the fourth article in our series on anti-detect browsers. In the previous post, we explained how to detect anti-fingerprinting scripts injected via Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Here, we analyze Hidemium, a popular anti-detect browser, and describe how it can be detected. We start with a high-level overview of| The Castle blog
