Fingerprint Identification vs FingerprintJS

In early 2019, the creator of FingerprintJS listened to the users' feedback to develop a new and exciting product called Fingerprint Identification.

The primary difference between FingerprintJS and Fingerprint Identification lies in how the attributes collected from the browser are processed to create a unique device fingerprint.

FingerprintJS is a source-available, client-side browser fingerprinting library that combines browser attributes to generate a unique and stable hash. As the attributes from two browsers of the same version, from the same vendor, on the same platform, can be identical, FingerprintJS cannot tell these two browsers apart. Also, since the fingerprints are generated directly in the browser, they are easily vulnerable to spoofing and reverse engineering.

On the other hand, Fingerprint Identification is a commercial product that is designed and developed to accurately identify users and thus combat fraud. It processes the browser attributes on the server and also analyzes vast amounts of auxiliary data (e.g. IP addresses, time of visit patterns, URL changes, etc.). Because of these advanced matching techniques, Fingerprint Identification is able to reliably deduplicate different users that have identical devices.

From a security standpoint, Fingerprint Identification is more secure because:

• The information collected is never exposed in the browser making it harder to tamper with.
• The information collected is never shared with third party.
• The information is processed in our servers and transmitted securely using server-to-server APIs.

Compared to FingerprintJS, Fingerprint Identification has numerous other advantages. The table below compares and contrasts these two products: