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- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- technology@lemmy.world
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I’m honestly not impressed. Basic IP address that didn’t really provide an accurate location, plus the (no shit sherlock) state and country it was in. Told me it was ios, a browser, and that I’d turned a bunch of stuff off.
That’s it.
Well too bad!
Whoops, I dunno why it’s formatted weirdly
Great news. My VPN is working!
Well they tried
And yet here they are showing me their webpage in darkmode 😒
I’m glad it acknowledges explains the impacts of anti-fingerprinting measures. I’ve seen some others assume that a random canvas is unique rather than one of the many people randomising it the same way, leading to a false “unique” assessment.
Your browser appears to be returning the viewport in place of the real screen — anti-fingerprinting at work. The substitution is itself distinctive.
Your browser masked your graphics processor. Firefox and Safari have started returning generic strings — “Mozilla”, “Apple”, “or similar” — instead of the real renderer. The fact that yours did so tells us, with reasonable confidence, which browser you are running. The mask is also a fingerprint.
I like that they covered all the possibilities for the do not track flag, as I saw it as useless from the very start, as by then I realized the honour system didn’t mean shit and it would just be another piece of data.
all trackers hate this one trick
Unironically a solid way to block a lot of tracking. Although they can still fingerprint you I think.
Nothing makes you more unique than being one of the few people who disable java script
Only a handful of data points surfaces by this website come from JS APIs, most are either header-based or some other browser behaviour that is independent from JS
I definitely have misleading information on there, which is great, but I probably need more.
Welp, my user agent switcher is successfully purporting to be a different operating system.
I found it interesting that it knows my battery level and current orientation of the phone.
It got my phone’s orientation wrong
I can understand the latter since it might want to render differently, but why does it need to know the battery level?
Potentially to activate battery-saving features? Like AMOLED-black mode if your battery is <15 % or something (and your screen is AMOLED)
Shouldn’t that be the provenance of the device itself though. My phone already allows me to set a threshold when it should go to night mode for example. The system can tell the browser to switch rendering to night mode. There’s no real reason for the browser then to report to the site.
On Firefox android both the battery level and graphics card information were not available. But it was described as another data point regardless.
Quite fear mongering and not very educative. Throws around a lot of terms whose meanings are not explained, nor are there links to further descriptions. This doesn’t help people who need to know about this stuff. If you already know about this stuff, it doesn’t really add any value.
There are links and more info when you get to the bottom, you can click on sources. It gives you info and what to do about it, with links to sites like EFF.
So uh… By using fennec and sometimes a VPN. Am I making myself more unique and fingerprint able?
Should I be using something that sends randomised bogus data instead?
Here I thought I was private but some of these 1% figures makes it look like I’m very unique and easily tracked.
Should I be using something that sends randomised bogus data instead?
Mine is sending that my primary language is English, but that I know other languages (I don’t), but it’d be nice to have a tool messes with them more.
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.
Is there no add on, for Firefox, for example, to stop or confuse fingerprinting?
Any suggestions?
For Android.
that’s pretty comprehensive, and similarity ratios show how easy it is to create a unique fingerprint for somebody if you hash a few of these metrics together for example.
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.
Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.
TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.
Yay, I’m completely unique! I won!
Wait a minute
The percentage of, normally, privacy-aware people
Attribute number 1 already says 0%. We’re done here.
They basically asked for your name, birth date, and mother’s maiden name, and your browser just gave it to them and offered even more.
This post helped me discover that my SurfShark VPN built-in kill switch does not work within the Android app. My home IP was showing.
I turned kill switch on at the OS level and my IP was correctly showing the VPN IP.
Well. That’s horrifying. Thanks, I guess.
