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Can I use a timing attack to determine if my script has been seen before as a fingerprint measurement? Meaning, is there a way via timing checks to determine whether this is a cache hit which could tell me something about the user? Or is it per domain and effectively like storing a bool in local storage?



You were already able to do this by loading any other kind of cached resource.


While true, I was under the impression that there wasn't a cross-domain cache that wasn't opt-in. Again, though, maybe this is per-domain so it's moot.


Simple cross domain <IMG> tags can have their load time measured..




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