Added protection for history.length

As requested by #231.

.documentation/addon description/de/description.txt

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Geschützte "Fingerprinting"-APIs:
 		<li>canvas 2d</li>
 		<li>webGL</li>
 		<li>audio</li>
+		<li>history</li>
 	</ul>
 
 Falls Sie Fehler finden oder Verbesserungsvorschläge haben, teilen Sie mir das bitte auf https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/issues mit.

.documentation/addon description/en/description.txt

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Protected "fingerprinting" APIs:
 		<li>canvas 2d</li>
 		<li>webGL</li>
 		<li>audio</li>
+		<li>history</li>
 	</ul>
 
 Please report issues and feature requests at https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/issues

_locales/de/messages.json

@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@
 		"message": "Audio API",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"section_history-api":{
+		"message": "History API",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	
 	"displayAdvancedSettings_title": {
 		"message": "Expertenmodus",
@@ -177,6 +181,18 @@
 		"message": "Wollen Sie das Auslesen über die Audio-API erlauben?",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"askForHistoryPermission": {
+		"message": "Wollen Sie die History-API erlauben?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"askForHistoryInputPermission": {
+		"message": "Wollen Sie das Schreiben in über die History-API erlauben?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"askForHistoryReadoutPermission": {
+		"message": "Wollen Sie das Auslesen über die History-API erlauben?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	"askOnlyOnce_title": {
 		"message": "Nur einmal nachfragen",
 		"description": ""
@@ -500,6 +516,10 @@
 		"message": "Audioauslese vorgetäuscht auf {url}",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"fakedHistoryReadout": {
+		"message": "History-Auslese vorgetäuscht auf {url}",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	"fakedInput": {
 		"message": "Bei Ausgabe vorgetäuscht auf {url}",
 		"description": ""
@@ -804,6 +824,15 @@
 		"description": ""
 	},
 	
+	"historyLengthThreshold_title": {
+		"message": "History-Längenschwellwert",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"historyLengthThreshold_description": {
+		"message": "Maximale Länge der Browser-History, die der Web-Seite mitgeteilt wird.",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	
 	"theme_title": {
 		"message": "Theme",
 		"description": ""

_locales/en/messages.json

@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@
 		"message": "Audio API",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"section_history-api":{
+		"message": "History API",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	
 	"displayAdvancedSettings_title": {
 		"message": "Expert mode",
@@ -177,6 +181,18 @@
 		"message": "Do you want to allow audio readout?",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"askForHistoryPermission": {
+		"message": "Do you want to allow the history API?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"askForHistoryInputPermission": {
+		"message": "Do you want to allow history-API input?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"askForHistoryReadoutPermission": {
+		"message": "Do you want to allow history readout?",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	"askOnlyOnce_title": {
 		"message": "Ask only once",
 		"description": ""
@@ -500,6 +516,10 @@
 		"message": "Faked audio readout on {url}",
 		"description": ""
 	},
+	"fakedHistoryReadout": {
+		"message": "Faked history readout on {url}",
+		"description": ""
+	},
 	"fakedInput": {
 		"message": "Faked at input on {url}",
 		"description": ""
@@ -803,6 +823,15 @@
 		"description": ""
 	},
 	
+	"historyLengthThreshold_title": {
+		"message": "History length threshold",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	"historyLengthThreshold_description": {
+		"message": "Maximal length of the history that is reported to the web site.",
+		"description": ""
+	},
+	
 	"theme_title": {
 		"message": "Theme",
 		"description": ""

lib/askForPermission.js

@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
 						visible: _("askForVisiblePermission"),
 						invisible: _("askForInvisiblePermission"),
 						nocanvas: _("askForPermission"),
-						audio: _("askForAudioPermission")
+						audio: _("askForAudioPermission"),
+						history: _("askForHistoryPermission"),
 					},
 					askStatus: {
 						alreadyAsked: {},
@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@
 						visible: _("askForVisibleInputPermission"),
 						invisible: _("askForInvisibleInputPermission"),
 						nocanvas: _("askForInputPermission"),
-						audio: _("askForAudioInputPermission")
+						audio: _("askForAudioInputPermission"),
+						history: _("askForHistoryInputPermission"),
 					},
 					askStatus: {
 						alreadyAsked: {},
@@ -110,7 +112,8 @@
 						visible: _("askForVisibleReadoutPermission"),
 						invisible: _("askForInvisibleReadoutPermission"),
 						nocanvas: _("askForReadoutPermission"),
-						audio: _("askForAudioReadoutPermission")
+						audio: _("askForAudioReadoutPermission"),
+						history: _("askForHistoryReadoutPermission"),
 					},
 					askStatus: {
 						alreadyAsked: {},

lib/modifiedAPI.js

@@ -486,4 +486,5 @@
 		});
 	}
 	appendModified(modifiedAudioAPI);
+	appendModified(require("./modifiedHistoryAPI"));
 }());

lib/modifiedHistoryAPI.js

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+(function(){
+	"use strict";
+	
+	var scope;
+	if ((typeof exports) !== "undefined"){
+		scope = exports;
+	}
+	else {
+		window.scope.modifiedHistoryAPI = {};
+		scope = window.scope.modifiedHistoryAPI;
+	}
+	
+	const {hasType, checkerWrapper} = require("./modifiedAPIFunctions");
+	
+	scope.changedGetters = [
+		{
+			objectGetters: [function(window){return window.History.prototype;}],
+			name: "length",
+			getterGenerator: function(checker){
+				const temp = {
+					get length(){
+						return checkerWrapper(checker, this, arguments, function(args, check){
+							const {prefs, notify, window, original} = check;
+							const originalLength = original.apply(this, window.Array.from(args));
+							const threshold = prefs("historyLengthThreshold", window.location);
+							if (originalLength > threshold){
+								notify("fakedHistoryReadout");
+								return threshold;
+							}
+							else {
+								return originalLength;
+							}
+						});
+					}
+				};
+				return Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(temp, "length").get;
+			}
+		}
+	];
+	
+	
+	function getStatus(obj, status){
+		status = Object.create(status);
+		status.active = hasType(status, "readout");
+		return status;
+	}
+	
+	scope.changedGetters.forEach(function(changedGetter){
+		changedGetter.type = "readout";
+		changedGetter.getStatus = getStatus;
+		changedGetter.api = "history";
+	});
+}());

lib/settingDefinitions.js

@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@
 				{name: "Audio-API", level: 1},
 				"getFloatFrequencyData", "getByteFrequencyData", "getFloatTimeDomainData", "getByteTimeDomainData",
 				"getChannelData", "copyFromChannel",
-				"getFrequencyResponse"
+				"getFrequencyResponse",
+				{name: "History-API", level: 1},
+				"length",
 			],
 			defaultKeyValue: false
 		},
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@
 			keys: [
 				"canvas",
 				"audio",
+				"history",
 			],
 			defaultKeyValue: false
 		},
@@ -236,6 +239,10 @@
 				return Math.floor(Math.random() * 30).toString(10);
 			}
 		},
+		{
+			name: "historyLengthThreshold",
+			defaultValue: 2
+		},
 		{
 			name: "blockDataURLs",
 			defaultValue: true

manifest.json

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 			"lib/hash.js",
 			"lib/modifiedAPIFunctions.js",
 			"lib/modifiedAudioAPI.js",
+			"lib/modifiedHistoryAPI.js",
 			"lib/modifiedAPI.js",
 			"lib/randomSupplies.js",
 			"lib/intercept.js",

options/settingsDisplay.js

@@ -390,6 +390,13 @@
 				}
 			]
 		},
+		"History-API",
+		{
+			"name": "historyLengthThreshold",
+			"displayDependencies": {
+				"displayAdvancedSettings": [true]
+			}
+		},
 		"misc",
 		{
 			"name": "theme"

releaseNotes.txt

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Version 0.5.3:
 		- added theme for browser action popup
 		- added badge
 		- added option to ignore APIs
+		- added protection for history length
 	
 	fixes:
 		- CSP did not work properly for worker-src

test/detectionTest.js

@@ -96,22 +96,28 @@ addTest("function length", function(log){
 addTest("function code", function(log){
 	"use strict";
 	var codeDetected = false;
-	if (
+	function checkFunctionCode(func, expectedName){
-		!CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.getImageData.toString().match(
+		log("checking", expectedName);
-			/^\s*function getImageData\s*\(\)\s*\{\s*\[native code\]\s*\}\s*$/
+		if (!func.toString().match(
-		)
+			new RegExp("^\\s*function " + expectedName + "\\s*\\(\\)\\s*\\{\\s*\\[native code\\]\\s*\\}\\s*$")
-	){
+		)){
-		log("unexpected function code:", CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.getImageData.toString());
+			log("unexpected function code:", func.toString());
-		codeDetected = true;
+			return true;
-	}
+		}
-	if (
+		return false;
-		!HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toDataURL.toString().match(
-			/^\s*function toDataURL\s*\(\)\s*\{\s*\[native code\]\s*\}\s*$/
-		)
-	){
-		log("unexpected function code:", HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toDataURL.toString());
-		codeDetected = true;
 	}
+	codeDetected = checkFunctionCode(
+		CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.getImageData,
+		"getImageData"
+	) || codeDetected;
+	codeDetected = checkFunctionCode(
+		HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toDataURL,
+		"toDataURL"
+	) || codeDetected;
+	codeDetected = checkFunctionCode(
+		history.__lookupGetter__("length"),
+		"get length"
+	) || codeDetected;
 	return codeDetected;
 });
 addTest("toString modified", function(log){