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JoeAcchino on Dec 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your ...

"They didn't use any JavaScript to get this information."

The list of installed plugins is retrieved via JS: window.navigator.plugins.

Not sure about fonts, though.

WiseWeasel on Dec 29, 2013 [–]

Ah, good catch. I guess the JS navigator.plugins list is quite a bit more thorough than the plugin information sent in your request headers (which I believe is limited to Java: yes/no).

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