It's worth noting that you need both uniqueness and some form of stability. If you consistently show up as a diffent fingerprint every time you visit or for every different site, then that is a form of privacy as well.
bravoetch 35 minutes ago [-]
It's horrifying to see that our browsers give up anything at all. I feel like we need a new model where we just get served the content, and we don't serve up anything to the content provider. I feel ill.
dylan604 23 minutes ago [-]
How would you prevent that? If you want to use a feature, you need to know if that feature is available. So you add methods/functions to ensure that you can fail gracefully when something is not available. That availability is the fingerprint. I don't blame the browsers as much as asshats using the tool for malicious purposes. We're not going to ban hammers because someone uses them for things other than driving nails.
fooqux 6 minutes ago [-]
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anishvarghese 8 minutes ago [-]
Fascinating visualization , as someone building productivity extensions, it is always sobering to see exactly how much surface area the browser exposes.
dd8601fn 54 minutes ago [-]
This doesn’t seem right. 1 in 6.2 billion for Firefox on an iphone, not including ip/network uniqueness?
Seems more plausible that anti-fingerprinting is throwing it off?
mattkrause 29 minutes ago [-]
Some of the data seems straight-up wrong.
I know this computer has more RAM than reported and it's definitely not on a 4G network either.
daveoc64 18 minutes ago [-]
The APIs it's relying on to show you that information do implement some anti-fingerprinting mechanisms - things like available memory will be put into rough buckets rather than returning the exact amount you have.
randomblock1 41 minutes ago [-]
Yeah seems like it doesn't account for anti-fingerprinting at all.
dylan604 30 minutes ago [-]
If your ISP issues an IPv6 address, isn't that pretty much game over for anonymity/uniqueness?
tke248 2 hours ago [-]
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Seems more plausible that anti-fingerprinting is throwing it off?
I know this computer has more RAM than reported and it's definitely not on a 4G network either.