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So this information is in a reply, but it deserves a top level reminder: most browsers leak your identity. panopticlick is still able to fingerprint me to the

So this information is in a reply, but it deserves a top level reminder: most browsers leak your identity. panopticlick is still able to fingerprint me to the point where I'm unique.... over 17 bits of identity in my browser (means you can identify me in a pool of up to 2^17th people). Try it yourself. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ (click "Test me" then "show full results")

wlesieutre 10y ago
They really overstate their statistics by pretending each variable is independent. 6 bits from my screen resolution. Another 2 from browser plugin details. 5 from my Http_accept headers. 5 from system fonts. It's an iPad. Every single iPad is going to match on every one of those variables. You don't get to just add them up and say "Yep, 100 bits of info, I can uniquely identify this device!" Similarly, the 10 bits of WebGL fingerprint and 7 of canvas fingerprint might narrow it down to a single model of iPad, but I doubt the "extra bits" of the canvas fingerprint tell you anything that the WebGL fingerprint didn't already.