Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
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Re: Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
#2In public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000.
Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, even in private mode. This surprises me, because I have some pretty unusual fonts installed.
edit: And actually, now that I test again, it does find one other match even in non-private mode. I guess that it's counting each me as a new person each time I do it, even though I'm connecting from the same IP with the same exact browser configuration.
Re: Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
#3Hmm, so I understand what they're tracking. But what's the end game for this experiment?
Re: Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
#4I wonder if you can identify people using habitual patterns of mouse moving and pauses between keys when typing.
Re: Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
#5In public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000. Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, even in private mode. This surprises me, because I have some pretty unusual fonts installed. edit : And actually, now that I test again, it does find one other match even in non-private mode. I guess that it's counting each me as a new person each tim…
Not surprising given that fonts tend to come in groups---did you remove all your nonstandard fonts? If five people out of a million install the same unusual font pack, and one removes all but one font from the pack, that one will be a unique even though the configuration is "more like" a common one.
Re: Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
#6"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 45,667 tested so far."
I use FlashBlock and Ghostery as well.