What score does your browser(s) get?
I’ll start: I got:
one in ~25000 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours
“Your browser has a unique fingerprint”…well that isn’t good…
Please also consider things like canvas spoofing. It will create a unique fingerprint that is different every time.
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
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.
On Safari 17 every time I visit the site it claims it’s my first visit, despite a trust score of 57%. Not sure if I’m interpreting the results wrong or ITP is just doing its job.
iOS 17 Safari (especially with enhanced fingerprint protection on) is really good at fingerprint protection. It rotates a few data points like canvas ID so that it makes you look like a new fingerprint each time.
Fingerprint analyzers can find out lots about your fingerprint that way, but if your fingerprint keeps changing, it becomes difficult to identify you. Unique fingerprints don’t mean anything if your fingerprint keeps changing.
That’s what I was kind of thinking/hoping based on the results, but I wasn’t sure if I was understanding it right. Thanks for elaborating!
Imagine I keep a log of everyone I encounter… their race, hair colour, eye colour, glasses shape, accent, gender, fingernail length, ear lobe shape, everything. I would probably encounter the same people every so often, and I would be able to recognize them from my log.
Now imagine that one of them started dying their hair and putting in coloured contact lenses, and they changed it up every day. I may be able to collect all of the details about them. They’re very unique. But… I couldn’t match them against anyone in my log, even though I’ve seen them multiple times.
Having a unique browser fingerprint is perfectly fine if it constantly changes. They can collect all of those details about you, but if you keep changing key details, they won’t be able to recognize you.
I’m not sure how to read this report. It says my browser is unique and random with strong protections.
I got “unique among the 185,973 tested in the past 45 days”
Edit: this is using Firefox Android Nightly with UBlock + Canvas Blocker
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.
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I’ve an unique fingerprint, but different fp results in every test run, with mostly wrong sys specs, only it shows correct my country, nothing else. Same in Browserleaks.
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.
0 because I have scripts disabled.
Only one in 706.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as
yoursmine.Is that bad? Or is this like golf.
The lower the number the better. That’s pretty decent.
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.
1:46157.75 using mobileSafari on iOS with NextDNS.
