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Yes. Changing common settings might in fact even make you stand out _more_. Check the EFF's Panopticlick [0] to see how your specific configurations leaks ide

• smartbit 10y ago
  This week’s http://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2016/11/144_kiosk http://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2016/11/144_kiosk states “Viele .. fingerprinting-verfarhen laufen auf Mobilgeräten ins Leere. … Zudem gibt es kein Mittel, mit dem man über gezielt gegen Fingerprinting über die Sensoreigenschaften vorgehen kan - weder unter iOS noch unter Android.” And then it concludes recommending Adblockers for Safari on iOS noting that it depends on the quality of the block-list. It also mentions that adblockers on iOS don’t work in Apps, other than in Android. IOW most fingerprinting fail on mobile devices and that sensors, eg batteries, are one of the few remains for fingerprining on iOS. Do you disagree with Heise? Could you please substantiate your statements regarding iOS fingerprinting?
  • atomwaffel 10y ago
    You're right that mobile devices are harder to fingerprint – too many people with the same screen size, operating system, browser version, timezone, and language/region settings. However, mobile devices have a bunch of sensors, some of which can be accessed by JavaScript without permission, namely the ones you wouldn't expect to yield identifying information (e.g. accelerometer). The problem is that no two sensors are alike – they all introduce noise into the data which can be enough to fingerprint a device. See here for a paper on the subject: https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/sensor_id.pdf https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/sensor_id.pdf