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Song-Li/cross_browser

This is a project for a browser fingerprinting technique that can track users not only within a single browser but also across different browsers on the same machine. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Song-Li/cross_browser · homepage · JavaScript · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3751
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1689
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1270 stars · 260 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A research project from Johns Hopkins implementing cross-browser fingerprinting that identifies users across different browsers on the same machine using OS and hardware-level features like GPU, CPU, and installed fonts/scripts. It consists of a JavaScript client-side fingerprint collector and a Python Flask backend server.

Use cases

  • collect browser fingerprints for research
  • study cross-browser user tracking techniques
  • demonstrate fingerprinting attacks on privacy
  • test how hardware and OS features leak identity across browsers
  • deploy a fingerprinting demo server

When to choose

  • you are a privacy/security researcher studying fingerprinting
  • you need to reproduce the NDSS'17 cross-browser tracking paper
  • you want a working demo of hardware-level fingerprint collection

When to avoid

  • you need production-grade, maintained fingerprinting code
  • you want to protect users from tracking rather than study it
  • you cannot work with Python 2-era dependencies

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

security http-server web-scraping security privacy web-development browser-extensions python browser browser-fingerprinting cross-browser-tracking privacy-research ndss17 device-fingerprinting user-tracking web-server javascript

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Song-Li/cross_browsermain32

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="Song-Li/cross_browser")

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