I want to know how much of my porn habits reddit/fb/google/whoever keep on file.
Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
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#42My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique.
So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone.
That is your browser deliberately reports the whatever is currently the most popular of a set of general identities.
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#43Interesting! 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.
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ is less detailed but shows the individual uniqueness of each attribute.
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#44My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique. So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone. That is your browser deliberately reports the whatever is currently the most popular of a set of general identities.
This sounds good bit miss one thing and you are extremely unique again
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#45What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.
I believe Cloudflare has this product already https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/products/browser-isola...
Not all websites work well, and you get a lot of captchas last time I tried it. From memory the way they make this work is pretty cool though, they capture Skia draw commands and send those over the network and use a wasm library to replay them.
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#46If two people have the same model iPhone and same version of iOS how different or similar would the fingerprints be?
My iPhone is allegedly unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices.
But I wonder how true that is, given how many people use the same model and iOS version as me.
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#47If two people have the same model iPhone and same version of iOS how different or similar would the fingerprints be? My iPhone is allegedly unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices. But I wonder how true that is, given how many people use the same model and iOS version as me.
There is a couple of hardware/software independent data points: time zone, currency, locale.
And if every option cuts the user base in half, becoming unque is a matter of 33 such options.
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#48If two people have the same model iPhone and same version of iOS how different or similar would the fingerprints be? My iPhone is allegedly unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices. But I wonder how true that is, given how many people use the same model and iOS version as me.
The fingerprint is comprised of more than device and OS:
Browser type and version
Screen resolution
Installed fonts
Browser plugins and extensions
Canvas fingerprinting data
WebGL (graphics hardware info)
Time zone
Language settings
IP address
HTTP headers
Touch support
Device type
AudioContext
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#49I want to know how much of my porn habits reddit/fb/google/whoever keep on file.
Every load, and more.
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#50It reports that my OS is Windows 10 on two different browsers, even though my OS is Windows 7.