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On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 91389.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.48 bits of identifying information
Doesn't look good. How do you make it so that your browser doesn't have a fingerprint at all?
Close it.
16.47 on Cromite. But most of the identify information is not even true, almost everything is spoofed. User agent, timezone, operating system, browser name, screen size and color depth, device, even the battery percentage
I misread the title as "Cover your taxes" and got really excited to earn about tax avoidance tips. Legal ones obviously.
Vanadium: Your Results Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 61101.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 15.9 bits of identifying information.
I get 8.44 bits (1 in 347.34 browsers). I use Firefox with Arkenfox user.js applied on top, with some of my own custom overrides.
However, I think the biggest factor could be because I have Ublock Origin set to medium-hard mode (block 1st party scripts, 3rd party scripts and 3rd party iframes by default on all websites), so the lack of JavaScript heavily affects what non-whitelisted websites can track. I did whitelist 1st-party scripts on the main domain for this test (coveryourtracks.eff.org), but all the 'tracker' site redirects stay off the whitelist.
I actually had to allow Ublock Origin to temporarily visit the tracker sites for the test to properly finish--otherwise it gives me a big warning that I'm about to visit a domain on the filter list.
with budget vpn on: one in 22756.25 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours
with budget vpn off and just apple safebrowsing on: one in 20231.22 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
i have the worst vpn!
I appreciate the site, but what score is considered good or bad? A cool stat would be some kind of score compared to everyone else.
Best methods to lower the score on android? I tested multiple browsers on EFF. 17 bits regardless of browser.
Interesting, this is a cool test! Unsurprisingly, my setup is rather unique.
One thing that stood out to me is that it failed to detect my adblocker. Also, my screen size alone is unique: 1 in 181697 of this 181697 browsers tested.
What would be considered a high score on this? Is 16 too high?
After disabling extension "I still don't care about cookies" on Librewolf, I went from 17.48 bits unique fingerprint to 16.48 nearly unique one.
If I tried twice and I got a unique id both times, does it mean Firefox is covering my track ?
Idk, but I have the same. Scrolling through the tracking methods the only ones with high uniqueness were hash of canvas fingerprint and hash of webGL for me. According to it I still have strong protection Firefox + ublock on mobile though
if it ran the test again, I'd say yes. but if it just reloads the result page, doesn't mean anything
yeah I was wondering if the tool would show that hit saws this id once already
17.47 on mobile Vivaldi.
It seems like the characteristics of my Android tablet doom me here - I was unique even using Chrome.