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What score does your browser(s) get?
I’ll start: I got:
one in ~25000 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours
CreepJS is much better (and scarier) at fingerprinting you than EFF. I’ve not managed to completely fool it yet but I’ve got my score down to 0% trust, meaning the fingerprint it generates is pretty useless. I suspect the only way to totally fool it (by which I mean spoof my devices) would be to turn JS off completely.
“Your browser has a unique fingerprint”…well that isn’t good…
Unique among the people who use that website. So if nobody else if you’re configuration ever tried that website… You would be unique
The bits of entropy are the more important parts of the results. The lower the bits the better
mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + a bunch of extensions: 1:26830.0
fingerprint.com does not track me
Mullvad browser + extensions is pointless, might as well use LibreWolf or just harden Firefox yourself.
The point of the Mullvad browser is to not stand out from the crowd; by installing extensions you are definitely standing out.
librewolf doesn’t do auto updates.
I don’t need to harden firefox myself, mullvad comes pre harded.
Librewolf Flatpak autoupdates lol
That’s great! I’m glad you have a package management system that works for you!
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#how-often-do-you-update-librewolf
It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.
There is also fingerprint.com, which I tend to trust more since it’s a company that literally sells fingerprinting tech to other companies.
It managed to identify me while using the Tor browser on “Safer” (doesn’t work on “Safest” due to JS). Edit: this is likely due to an issue with my install, and not the browser itself.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 187,041 tested in the past 45 days.
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 93387.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.51 bits of identifying information.
But also
Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint
I don’t get it
There’s a couple issues going on here. Number one is it’s unique amongst the people who go to EFFs website cover your tracks. That’s not all of the internet users. Hell that’s not even most of the internet users. It’s pretty niche community.
The bits of identifying information are the critical key here. 16 bits, 2 ^ 16… 65,000 different possibilities. Each piece of information you give, makes it a little bit easier to track you. Things like language, time zone… The more bits, the easier it is to identify you. The less bits, the more you blend into the crowd.
This is why multiple people, including myself, have talked about fingerprint.com they’re professional service, who’s targeting websites, who want to track users. So they’re incentivized to track as best as able.
Even if you’ve got a great EFF score, you should always check fingerprint.com, to see if they can track you.
0 because I have scripts disabled.