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		saagarjha on May 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey There’s a difference between plugins and extensions. Plugins add support for new types of media (think Flash, Java) while extensions are your adblockers and userscripts.

Spivak on May 6, 2019 [–]

Plugins also provide support for new video codecs. Plugins are definitely the wrong place for it but I would be so happy to see codecs factored out of individual browsers.

AgentME on May 6, 2019 | [–]

That would make the list of supported video codecs a better fingerprinting mechanism.

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