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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it

sinceyouarrived.world

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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it

sinceyouarrived.world

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days ago
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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    This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

    It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you’re unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.

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      Yay, I’m completely unique! I won!

      Wait a minute

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      TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.

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        Yes and it will appear unique every time because every visit is using a different combination.

        You’ll be unique be less trackable.

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      I like clickclickclick.click

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      I am a unique signiture but it also got my OS wrong and couldn’t get my time zone

      Y’all I think I won privacy

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      i used to think that firefox on linux and as plain-jane-generic as you could get besides windows; but no, i’m ultra unique:

      Yes! You are unique among the 5084762 fingerprints in our entire dataset.

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        Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.

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          EFF updated their site since last check months ago, seeming to confirm theory

          Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking. IS YOUR BROWSER: Blocking tracking ads?	Yes Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes Protecting you from fingerprinting?	◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint

          Nice (& I’m unique again on AmIUnique)

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          Check next week or in a new private tab now, prob be unique then too—think Apple’s fuzzing/reporting some noise/junk data for us.

          Canvas:

          & WebGL:

          gotta be noisy, here’s hoping!

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            Look at my epic WebGL render:

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              How exactly is this rendering artifact generated?

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                I don’t know. But it’s random, which gives sites a “false sense of fingerprintability” each time.

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      Is there no add on, for Firefox, for example, to stop or confuse fingerprinting?

      Any suggestions?

      For Android.

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        You can enable RFP on Firefox Android with about:config. Or just install IronFox/WebLibre, they’ll do it for you.

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          About:config doesn’t work on my android Firefox.

          I should switch.

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      I am unique cause I set language to EN-GB :D I guess their dataset is us centric

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        Same here with en-au, and my fucking timezone.

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      My Mum always said I was unique.

      Now I have proof!

      Just being in Australia, and setting the timezone correctly gets you to below 0.6%

      😒

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      Attribute number 1 already says 0%. We’re done here.

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        They basically asked for your name, birth date, and mother’s maiden name, and your browser just gave it to them and offered even more.

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      that’s pretty comprehensive, and similarity ratios show how easy it is to create a unique fingerprint for somebody if you hash a few of these metrics together for example.

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      The percentage of, normally, privacy-aware people

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      dang, even with vanadium on graphene i am very uniquely identified. I suppose it can’t be helped these days.

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