Collected research

Fashion Faux Pas: Implicit Stylistic Fingerprints for Bypassing Browsers' Anti-Fingerprinting Defenses

Xu Lin, Frederico Araujo, Teryl Taylor, Jiyong Jang and Jason Polakis · cs.uic.edu

StylisticFP fingerprints a browser and device using only CSS: sized iframes, media queries and element layouts reveal fonts, operating system, browser and screen properties through dimensions alone, so no JavaScript API is touched and the anti-fingerprinting defences in Tor, Brave, Firefox, Safari and privacy extensions, which hook those APIs, never see the tracking.

Record

Researcher

Xu Lin, Frederico Araujo, Teryl Taylor, Jiyong Jang and Jason Polakis

Published by

cs.uic.edu

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Browser

In the archive

• Collected in the 2023 research round

Tags

• css
• iframe
• side-channel
• info-leak
• browser-extension
• measurement-study

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Xu Lin, Frederico Araujo, Teryl Taylor, Jiyong Jang and Jason Polakis, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 14 August 2026.