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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Yay, I'm completely unique! I won!

Wait a minute

[–] Programman4233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

what does "You are unique among the 5119710 fingerprints ..." mean?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Look at my epic WebGL render:

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"We know your IP address". No kidding, that's how IPv4 works, even if the browser wasn't ~~leaking~~ offering it.

[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

all trackers hate this one trick

[–] Zach777@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unironically a solid way to block a lot of tracking. Although they can still fingerprint you I think.

[–] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Nothing makes you more unique than being one of the few people who disable java script

[–] SteinSkylark@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Onion Browser with Orbot set to gold - site can’t see shit. So that works!

Your screen is 360 by 640 pixels, rendered at 4x density — which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display

GUESS AGAIN, IDIOTS! undyne-joy

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

1000014440

And yet here they are showing me their webpage in darkmode 😒

[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Funny how websites can read the gyroscope. It can also be used as a microphone. https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

[–] nixukty@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vibe coded af, how has nobody spotted this. The website swears the text was written by a human, and either they have contracted chronic GPT-virus or are an LLM

edit: this is made by Rise Up Labs which is an ai psychosis company

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

It identified my many-years-old phone with "360x760 pixels rendered at 3x density" screen as "recent, high-end display". Bitch, this wasn't even high-end when I bought it. It was small, it was cheap, it was barely "recent" when I bought it.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

It already got my location very wrong.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I hit it with Firefox and it gave 24 points. Firefox refused to disclose my battery level. But did give it my angular geometry.

I opened it in Brave and it lied about my screen resolution and colored up my fonts, my battery. It refused to give up my angular geometry.

Why the hell doesn't firefox just include some of those white lies?

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

My jaw dropped when I read the what angle my device is being held at, how many times I scrolled and tapped, what my position is!!!

How is this even legal?!

I always thought they just took my location, my device name etc. I had no idea it's this deep.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

Well then I am glad that it got most of it wrong. I don't even put thaat much emphasis on fingerprinting countermeasures. Apparently, using Firefox in a private tab is enough.