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Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research
- samdk 17y agoIn public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000. Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, even in private mode. This surprises me, because I have some pretty unusual fonts installed. edit: And actually, now that I test again, it does find one other match even in non-private mode. I guess that it's counting each me as a new person each time I do it, even though I'm connecting from the same IP with the same exact browser configuration.
- blahedo 17y agoNot surprising given that fonts tend to come in groups---did you remove all your nonstandard fonts? If five people out of a million install the same unusual font pack, and one removes all but one font from the pack, that one will be a unique even though the configuration is "more like" a common one.
- geuis 17y agoHmm, so I understand what they're tracking. But what's the end game for this experiment?
- ntoshev 17y agoI wonder if you can identify people using habitual patterns of mouse moving and pauses between keys when typing.
- jodrellblank 17y ago"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 45,667 tested so far." I use FlashBlock and Ghostery as well.