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70 bits? That's a ton. I'm at: 17.62 Chrome 75.0.x normal (non-incognito) 16.62 Chrome 75.0.x incognito 15.62 FF 68.0.1 (Private doesn't seem to make a
by mastre_ 7y ago
70 bits? That's a ton. I'm at:
17.62 Chrome 75.0.x normal (non-incognito)
16.62 Chrome 75.0.x incognito
15.62 FF 68.0.1 (Private doesn't seem to make a diff, I get the same score)
Seems like in Chrome, at least, the most offending (most unique) "characteristic" is HTTP_ACCEPT Headers, which looks something like
text/html, */*; q=0.01 gzip, deflate, br en-US,en;q=0.9,fr-FR;q=0.8,f...
If there is a good way to control this (FF does a much better job -- could be tied to plugins and such tho), one could further reduce the number of identifying bits.
Chrome seems to do better (less unique) in both Hash of canvas fingerprint and Hash of WebGL fingerprint. I've summarized the main differences I see below, seems like combining the best of Chrome w/ the best of FF would result in even better privacy:
https://i.imgur.com/QQQ6R85.png https://i.imgur.com/QQQ6R85.png
Edit: I think Chrome's HTTP_ACCEPT Headers is like that because I've installed/enabled many languages in it for l10n testing. I'm removing them now, which should make Chrome get a better score than FF.
- FabHK 7y agoFWIW, I've not taken the number quoted by the website ("at least x bits", which appears to be the maximum of the per-characteristic numbers, which sort of assumes that the characteristics are fully dependent (such that knowing further characteristics does not tell you anything beyond that one maximally informative characteristic)), but the sum of the per-characteristic numbers (which sort of makes the opposite assumption that the characteristics are fully independent, and knowing all the other characteristics does not reduce the information added by any one characteristic). So, the true number is somewhere in-between.