Browser Fingerprinting: A survey
It provides a comprehensive overview for newcomers and researchers in privacy and security, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing work without new experimental results.
The paper surveys the field of browser fingerprinting, explaining its mechanisms, analyzing modern fingerprint composition and usage, and systematizing defense solutions and challenges.
With this paper, we survey the research performed in the domain of browser fingerprinting, while providing an accessible entry point to newcomers in the field. We explain how this technique works and where it stems from. We analyze the related work in detail to understand the composition of modern fingerprints and see how this technique is currently used online. We systematize existing defense solutions into different categories and detail the current challenges yet to overcome.