On the Robustness of Mobile Device Fingerprinting
Thomas Hupperich, Davide Maiorca, Marc Kührer, Thorsten Holz, Giorgio Giacinto · 2015
Client fingerprinting techniques enhance classical cookie-based user tracking to increase the robustness of tracking techniques. A unique identifier is created based on characteristic attributes of the client device, and then used for deployment of personalized advertisements or similar use cases. Whereas fingerprinting performs well for highly customized devices (especially desktop computers), these methods often lack in precision for highly standardized devices like mobile phones.