Lying AI slop. Says I am unique among 7.2B devices and shows me a different fingerprint every time.
Idk how this vibe coded slopware made it to the front page of HN
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of the data seems straight-up wrong. I know this computer has more RAM than reported and it's definitely not on a 4G network either.
It got facebook pixel wrong. I see zero DNS requests to facebook.com on NextDNS
That panel reconstructs what a pixel would send from your own browser values, locally, and never makes the request. NextDNS seeing nothing is the tool working exactly as designed.
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#43It's worth noting that you need both uniqueness and some form of stability. If you consistently show up as a diffent fingerprint every time you visit or for every different site, then that is a form of privacy as well.
I just downloaded a fresh install of LibreWolf to test this and it did indeed have a stable UUID for me at 1/62E6. Better than the 1/680E6 from regular Firefox, but still upsetting. Fonts and Audio fingerprinting seems to be where a lot of the entropy is coming from... Even after I enabled some of the flags to resist font enumeration it still is stable and high entropy. I'm not sure what to do to be honest about this…
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#44Lying AI slop. Says I am unique among 7.2B devices and shows me a different fingerprint every time. Idk how this vibe coded slopware made it to the front page of HN
If it changes every load, that's your browser farbling canvas/audio per-read (Brave or Firefox), which means the anti-fingerprinting is working. We missed crediting that in v1, so it should read lower now if you reload.
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#45> 1 in 7.6 billion browsers share this profile
I always knew I was so unique
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#46The solution for me is not to be more common. The solution is to create a very unique profile each and every time.
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#47Also see https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
My understanding is that this tool only compares how identifiable you are compared to the other people who have previously visited the site.
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#48> 1 in 7.6 billion browsers share this profile I always knew I was so unique
unique is ideal, as long as you're differently unique to each site you visit
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#49I don't have JS enabled and it looks like they don't know anything about me at all.
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#50The solution for me is not to be more common. The solution is to create a very unique profile each and every time.
There should be a browser that lies to websites instead of caving