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On panopticlick, screen resolution is consistently top 2 most uniquely identifying things they fingerprint (edit: for me), hence the concern I suppose.
by jammygit 8y ago
On panopticlick, screen resolution is consistently top 2 most uniquely identifying things they fingerprint (edit: for me), hence the concern I suppose.
- godelski 8y agoThat's odd. Because this is my result (in order of "x browsers have this value): Canvas Fingerprinting: 1 in 3e6 User Agent: 1 in 2e3 (not many using FF on Linux I guess) System Fonts: 1 in 3e2 Timezone: 1 in 5e1 A few other things < 1 in 10 Screen Size and Color Depth: 1 in 6 Screen Size is nowhere near identifying to me. There are just huge drops in the order of magnitude in this stuff. I can't imagine standard fingerprinting is that reliable. Though I wouldn't be surprised to learn if there were certain trends about things. Like if you identify I'm using FF on Linux it tells you I'm nerdy. That'd be good for targeting ads, but not good for unique identification. I thought that's why cookies are used.