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Does it really provide that much entropy? Maybe back in the days when browsers didn’t auto-update, but intuitively it should only provide about four bits at mos
by shhehebehdh 8y ago
Does it really provide that much entropy? Maybe back in the days when browsers didn’t auto-update, but intuitively it should only provide about four bits at most (os: Android iOS macOS windows, browser: chrome safari edge ie ff) except for a few rare users who don’t stay up to date or choose a weird browser (and those folks probably are a little confused about how privacy works).
- woodrowbarlow 8y agoohhhhh you betcha. https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/ i ran this on my work laptop (windows 10 / firefox - mostly default settings). the "details" tab shows a full breakdown of each fingerprinting component with a "similarity ratio" (percentage of fingerprints that share the same value). every entry is 20% or greater, most of them around 50% except for timezone (4%), canvas (1%), and user agent (0.12%). so, yeah, user agents are still the largest source of entropy by a wide margin for fingerprinting scripts.
- shhehebehdh 8y agoI suspect this is just stale data. I can’t think why the most recent version of a browser would put me at one in a thousand.