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- The solution for me is not to be more common. The solution is to create a very unique profile each and every time.by cgio
- So it tells me I’m unique and it can track me across different browsers. It also tells me that in a different browser with a different fingerprint. Even private browsing shows more unique fingerprints that are completely different. I don’t think this site is very useful except looking at fancy data.by Semaphor
- 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.by bravoetch
- Cool tool, but the language is painfully characteristic of AI. Maybe we are collectively getting over caring about that, but if not, it's worth a pass of "make this sound a little less like AI."
E.g., the guide page ends with
> The honest bottom line. Perfect anonymity [...]
by strbean - Pretty sure someone else also promoted Claude to make something like this and posted it a few weeks back.by saaaaaam
- Also see https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/by gregsadetsky
- 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.by RandomBK
- 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?
by dd8601fn