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Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by jspash »

oersted wrote: post #6

Interesting! For me it says 1 in 17,179,869,184+, but scrolling through all the variables, the vast majority should be the same for any MacBook Chrome user. It would be great to see the stats of each individual characteristic.

I would love to be able to toggle an attribute off/on to see what affect each has on the uniqueness of my fingerprint. My guess is that there are a handful of _very_ unique things, that if obscured, would make one less recognisable.

Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by aaronharding »

qwertytyyuu wrote: post #17
njitram wrote: post #7

I tried various browsers, even the Tor browser, but it keeps showing 'Unique to 1 in 17.179.869.184+ devices'?

I have the exact same, Unique to 1 in 17,179,869,184+ devices. actually slightly different. hmmm... ,'s vs .'s

the person above you is from The Netherlands ;)

Re: Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

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Post by conartist6 »

reconnecting wrote: post #8
evgpbfhnr wrote: post #4

I get a new fingerprint id everytime I refresh the page (firefox, linux) -- so that might be sampling a tiny bit too much. audio and canvas fingerprint are constant though so it's probably plenty enough...

The same applies to macOS. Safari produces a unique fingerprint ID every time, and Firefox also has a different fingerprint ID with every visit. If the fingerprint ID is unique every time, there is zero possibility of using it for identification.

Very interesting. So this is the battlefield perhaps. Randomly corrupt the data instead of eliminating it?
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