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I never understood panopticlick, even when I repeatedly visit it, it always tells me that "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 135,054 test
by aub3bhat 10y ago
I never understood panopticlick, even when I repeatedly visit it, it always tells me that
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 135,054 tested so far."
Shouldn't it tell me that my browser is not unique during my 10th attempt considering it has recorded my previous attempts. This warning actually never changes, regardless of duration between consecutive attempts. That can only mean that the panopticlick is flawed or my browser signature is in constant flux (which would essentially make it useless from tracking perspective.)
- prof_hobart 10y agoI thought the same thing, so I did a bit of digging. Turns out they put a bunch of tracking cookies on your machine without asking you (it is mentioned in the about page though), which seem rather naughty for an organisation promoting online privacy. When I removed all 4 of them, I get down to being "almost unique". I'm currently down to having the same fingerprint as 1 in 45132.3333333 browsers.
- aub3bhat 10y agoThis is confusing, my incorrect assumption was 1 out n browsers meant n = total numbers of browsers evaluated by panopticlick. Rather what they mean is 1 out of k, where k is determined by unique bits. There might be other factor such as entropy of each fingerprint.