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This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you're unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.
Yay, I'm completely unique! I won!
Wait a minute
TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.
Yes and it will appear unique every time because every visit is using a different combination.
You'll be unique be less trackable.
i used to think that firefox on linux and as plain-jane-generic as you could get besides windows; but no, i'm ultra unique:
Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.
Check next week or in a new private tab now, prob be unique then too—think Apple’s fuzzing/reporting some noise/junk data for us.
Canvas:
& WebGL:
gotta be noisy, here’s hoping!
Look at my epic WebGL render:
How exactly is this rendering artifact generated?
I don't know. But it's random, which gives sites a "false sense of fingerprintability" each time.
EFF updated their site since last check months ago, seeming to confirm theory
Nice (& I’m unique again on AmIUnique)
Attribute number 1 already says 0%. We're done here.
They basically asked for your name, birth date, and mother's maiden name, and your browser just gave it to them and offered even more.
Is there no add on, for Firefox, for example, to stop or confuse fingerprinting?
Any suggestions?
For Android.
You can enable RFP on Firefox Android with about:config. Or just install IronFox/WebLibre, they'll do it for you.
About:config doesn't work on my android Firefox.
I should switch.
My Mum always said I was unique.
Now I have proof!
Just being in Australia, and setting the timezone correctly gets you to below 0.6%
😒
that's pretty comprehensive, and similarity ratios show how easy it is to create a unique fingerprint for somebody if you hash a few of these metrics together for example.
I am unique cause I set language to EN-GB :D I guess their dataset is us centric
Same here with en-au, and my fucking timezone.
I like clickclickclick.click
The percentage of, normally, privacy-aware people
I am a unique signiture but it also got my OS wrong and couldn't get my time zone
Y'all I think I won privacy
dang, even with vanadium on graphene i am very uniquely identified. I suppose it can't be helped these days.
what does "You are unique among the 5119710 fingerprints ..." mean?