SPIES Lab’s study, led by Zengrui Liu (former SPIES), Jimmy Dani and Nitesh Saxena, provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking. The researchers discovered that websites are covertly employing browser fingerprinting — a technique that uniquely identifies a web browser — to track users across browsing sessions and sites.
Read our full paper here.
Media outlets featuring our browser fingerprinting work include:
- Your browser is snitching on you, The Kim Komando Show
- New Research Provides First Evidence of the Use of Browser Fingerprints for Online Tracking, Soylent News
- Tracking of Internet users via browser fingerprinting, IT Daily
- Tracking of Internet users via browser fingerprinting, PCtipp
- Tracking Internet users via browser fingerprinting, Innovation & Information
- Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address, The Register
- Tracking of Internet users via fingerprinting, pressetext
- New Research Reveals How Websites Secretly Track Users Without Cookies, Israel Homeland Security (iHSL)
- Your web browser may be spying on you — Even without cookies, Knowridge Science Report
- VPNs cannot protect against browser fingerprinting – but this new web browser could be the fix, msn.com
- Researchers Link Browser Fingerprints to Ad Targeting, Undermining Online Privacy Promises, Digital Information World
- Websites are secretly tracking you using your browser’s ‘fingerprint’, Earth.com
- Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting, Hacker News
- Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting, researchers show, Tech Xplore
- Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address, The Register
- The browser reveals its identity. Why is this a problem?, gazeta na niedzielę (GNN)
- Risky Bulletin: Russian hackers abuse app-specific passwords to bypass MFA, RISKY.BIZ
- Researchers relate browser fingerprints to ad targeting, undermining promises of online privacy., Consultant ALEX BARBOSA
- VPNs cannot protect against browser fingerprinting – but this new web browser could be the fix, Tech Radar, June 21, 2025