Talk:CSS fingerprinting

CSS fingerprinting is currently a Computing and engineering good article nominee. Nominated by Sohom (talk) at 23:36, 18 January 2026 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and then save the page. See the good article instructions. Short description: Browser fingerprinting technique

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A fact from CSS fingerprinting appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 May 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that CSS can be used to track and identify you? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/CSS fingerprinting.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 15:12, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that CSS can be used to track and identify you?

• Source: Trampert, Leon; Weber, Daniel; Gerlach, Lukas; Rossow, Christian; Schwarz, Michael (2025-02-02). "Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Email and Browser Fingerprinting". NDSS Symposium. doi:10.60882/cispa.27194472.v3.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Interface Interruption

Created by Sohom Datta (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Sohom (talk) 14:45, 11 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

- article looks well-written, reasonably complete and properly sourced. And it meets the newness requirement. Hook fact is interesting (and to answer the question posed - no, I did not know that although I can see from looking at the article that it's a very plausible thing!). QPQ done. No issues that I can see.  — Amakuru (talk) 20:10, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More external links

• https://portswigger.net/research/inline-style-exfiltration
• CSS Exfil attack

Rudxain (talk) 17:33, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]