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Is it just me or would people rather be able to spoof or disable these fields without drudging through thousands of lines of C++ code?

• zamadatix 7y ago
  Most of these fields you don't want to disable or spoof because either it breaks your web experience (imagine images randomly not loading because you spoofed your headers and the server thinks your browser supports .whatever or because you emptied the list and the server doesn't know what to send) or because it makes you unique (having your build id be "" is certainly more unique than whatever others actually use). The tests you can spoof like the canvas fingerprinting where it doesn't break the canvas and the results are already so spread out being unique isn't an identifier itself are already built into a lot of browsers. The site doesn't really acknowledge this though, it just says "you're unique" without checking if it's a different unique value each time in which case it doesn't identify you at all.
• jedimastert 7y ago
  For some, no it would not really be possible. The Canvas fingerprint is the biggest one, as it relies on different forms of hardware acceleration which is based on GPU+CPU+configs for your computer and browser.
  • Deukhoofd 7y ago
    Can't be that hard, considering Firefox allows for blocking Canvas fingerprinting in its settings, and the site indeed shows that my canvas data is shared with around 6% of the users, so definitely not unique.