https://github.com/czottmann/jquery-browser-fingerprint

A super-simple, quick and dirty jQuery-based browser fingerprinting plugin.
https://github.com/czottmann/jquery-browser-fingerprint

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A super-simple, quick and dirty jQuery-based browser fingerprinting plugin.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/czottmann/jquery-browser-fingerprint
• Owner: czottmann
• License: other
• Archived: true
• Created: 2011-04-29T15:39:52.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-05-11T13:03:52.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-10T21:36:05.005Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 142 KB
• Stars: 159
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 53
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
### jquery.browser-fingerprint.js

Browser fingerprinting is a technique to "mark" anonymous users using JS

(or other things).  To build an "identity" of sorts the browser is queried

for a list of its plugins, the screen size and several other things, then

hashes them.  The idea is that these bits of information produce an unique

"fingerprint" of sorts; the more elaborate the list of data points is, the

more unique this fingerprint becomes.  And you wouldn't even need to set a

cookie to recognize this user when she visits again.

For more information on this topic consult

[Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/how-your-web-browser-rats-you-out-online.ars)

or the [EFF](http://panopticlick.eff.org/).  There is a lot of potential

for undesirable shenanigans, and I strictly oppose using this technique for

marketing and ad-related tracking purposes.

Anyways, I needed a really simple fingerprinting library, so I wrote a

quick and dirty jQuery plugin.  This is by no means a complete and

watertight implementation -- it is merely the scratch for a particular itch

I was having.  YMMV.

This library was written by Carlo Zottmann, [email protected], has its home

@ [Github](http://github.com/carlo/jquery-browser-fingerprint) and is

WTF-licensed (see LICENSE.txt).

Documentation (docco-generated) can be found in the `docs/` folder.