• @ivn@jlai.lu
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      47 months ago

      A VPN is unrelated, it changes your IP but the IP is not used to fingerprint.

        • @ivn@jlai.lu
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          07 months ago

          It might have a side effect but it’s still unrelated and useless for the purpose at hand.

            • @ivn@jlai.lu
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              17 months ago

              That’s side effects, the difference is irrelevant anyway.

              I insist because I think it’s important to understand this, both for you and for people reading these comments. The whole point of fingerprinting is to be able to track users without relying on cookies or IP. Changing IP does not protect against fingerprinting. I don’t want people to be mislead by your comment and think they are going to avoid tracking by just taking a better VPN.

              You can read more here:

              https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting

              “Browser fingerprinting” is a method of tracking web browsers by the configuration and settings information they make visible to websites, rather than traditional tracking methods such as IP addresses and unique cookies.

              And you can check the source code to see there is no mention of IP address:

              https://github.com/EFForg/cover-your-tracks/blob/master/fingerprint/fingerprint_helper.py

                • @ivn@jlai.lu
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                  17 months ago

                  It’s not worthless but it’s on only an indication, an example.

                  Isn’t the score change similar to the one you have when toggling Apple safebrowsing? (whatever that is)

                  A probable explanation is that your VPN client is somehow changing some of your browser settings. The VPN client, not the VPN itself.

                  Just check the detailed results to see what’s changed between the two. Whatever it is it could be changed manually, it’s does not require a VPN to change. But you probably don’t want to change it because your score with a VPN is worse than without.

                  But this has nothing to do with a VPN being the best or the worse.

  • JustVik
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    27 months ago

    It constantly gives me 17.5 bits on several browsers firefox, nyxt, gnu icecat, librewolf…

  • @LambdaRX@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    37 months ago

    After disabling extension “I still don’t care about cookies” on Librewolf, I went from 17.48 bits unique fingerprint to 16.48 nearly unique one.

  • @ripley@lemmy.world
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    27 months ago

    It seems like the characteristics of my Android tablet doom me here - I was unique even using Chrome.

      • Boomkop3
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        77 months ago

        …as long as you are blocking tracking cookies, and aren’t on a session with a website that’s tracking you.

        Otherwise, you just have a nice unique hash in your cookies. A password manager could help here.

          • Boomkop3
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            17 months ago

            Cookies and other ways of keeping a session upright are kept by the browser. So unless you’re mad enough to copy cookies between devices, they prove you’re on the same device.

            Using a password every time you log in, and letting your browser wipe everything on shutdown does not show websites wether you’re on yhe same or another device.

  • @Albbi@lemmy.ca
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    47 months ago

    I misread the title as “Cover your taxes” and got really excited to earn about tax avoidance tips. Legal ones obviously.

  • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    With browser settings that actually let me use the internet in a way that’s not overly cumbersome and annoying, I get 16bits or something and a “nearly unique fingerprint”

    • Block any and all ads, then it doesn’t matter that they have your data if they can’t make money off of it (they still will do that by creating data aggregates but you can’t control that)

    • @yonder@sh.itjust.works
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      77 months ago

      Same result here. I’m using Gnome-web, which is already pretty niche, so that probably really lowers my score.

  • @kekmacska@lemmy.zip
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    67 months ago

    16.47 on Cromite. But most of the identify information is not even true, almost everything is spoofed. User agent, timezone, operating system, browser name, screen size and color depth, device, even the battery percentage

  • @LastoftheDinosaurs@walledgarden.xyz
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    57 months ago

    Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 91389.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.48 bits of identifying information

    Doesn’t look good. How do you make it so that your browser doesn’t have a fingerprint at all?

    • @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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      167 months ago

      You can’t not have a finger print. You can a best try and look like everyone elses.Sadly the free market won’t care and as such you won’t blend with normal users. Still you can try and look like ever one else in the privacy community

  • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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    107 months ago

    12.67 from Safari/iPhone, without changing any settings. This is my most commonly used browser