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My fingerprint is
Unique to 1 in 17,179,869,184+ devices.
There have to be browsers that rotate your fingerprint, but having to engage in an arms race isn't exactly comforting.
Where did you get the uniqueness stat? You can't just divide by the total number of possibilities, for example, because not all combinations are equally represent. To get a real estimate you'd need a large sampling of users' browser fingerprints, which I imagine is hard to do.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 9h
It was displayed on the page when I visited it. But I'd guess you're right and the count of possible combinations is naive.
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Hmm, I didn't see that stat, I'm on mobile
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fenix 9h
Unique to 1 in 17,179,869,184+ devices.
I didn’t find this information there, just the ID.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 9h
It displayed at the top of the page for me under my ID. It doesn't come up anymore though
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Goddamn that's pretty specific. I've recently moved to graphene which has many features I've yet to discover, but often I wonder if mitigations simply make you more obvious in your divergence from the norms. I've often wondered if the best way to blend in would be to surf from a Starbucks using Safari with no extensions running on MacOS.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 9h
I tried it in another browser and using safari this test can’t show the correct iOS version I’m using. Are Safari doing a great job or is this about WebKit that every browser in iOS have to use it?
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This is a rather impossible battle to win as long as we insist on having such a feature-packed web. The more we try to protect ourselves against fingerprinting, the less hampered our experience becomes.
I use LibreWolf (a privacy-centric Firefox fork) which normalizes my timezone to UTC, makes my window size less unique, disables certain HTML5 features and a ton of other small tweaks – but it only helps to a small extent, and it's not easy to reason about. I'm just hoping what I do is measurably better than nothing.
There are alternatives to the web, especially Gemini, which have essentially zero fingerprintable surface. But these are mere geek novelties and will never have broad appeal.
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I learned that Brave lies for me about my hardware. I appreciate that.
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