RubberGlove

Blocks common browser fingerprint techniques to improve your privacy.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-03-29

By: Jason S. Clary

Users: 352

Rating: 3.48 (23)

Version: 14.7.8.0 (Last updated: 2014-07-11)

Creation date: 2014-07-11

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
privacy

Size: 26.63K

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RubberGlove aims to reduce the ability of websites to globally fingerprint your browser. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's website, panopticlick.eff.org, and the associated study shows just how effective these techniques are for tracking you even without cookies.

Currently it wraps the window.navigator and window.clientInformation objects to cloak plugins and mime types similar to the way it's done in Firefox and IE.

Planned future features:

Ability to add exceptions for specified sites (very soon)
Reduction of detailed version information both in window.navigator and the http User-Agent header.
Prevention of time skew and drift fingerprinting
Prevention of canvas based fingerprinting

Please note that until this plugin or others like it are widely used, Panopticlick will likely still report your browser as unique despite the significant reduction in bits of identifying information.

View the full source at https://github.com/jsclary/RubberGlove