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I dunno about this site. It claims that being on Eastern Time puts me in 5% of users.

josefresco 3y ago
I tried EFF's version* and it also said my Firefox browser was unique: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 179,689 tested in the past 45 days. However the fonts listed looked to be only system fonts so there's that. *https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
- ComputerGuru 3y ago
  The EFF version also tells you for each metric how (dis)similar you are from other users/devices. Or at least it’s supposed to - for one of them which was supposed to be a true/false boolean test, it said my browser revealed -1.00 bits of information and shared its value for that test with 1 out of every 1 device they saw.
- ta1243 3y ago
  I don't really get that "unique" fingerprint Sure I'm unique. I try it in private mode. > Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 180,370 tested in the past 45 days. Close down the window, switch VPN endpoint, and retry, and once again I'm unique. > Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 180,381 tested in the past 45 days. Looking at the values it seems they are identical. How do they know that the two tests are the same user If I try outside of private mode I see differences in DNT (set to true in private mode, false in not private mode) and in Hardware Concurrency (4 in private mode, 2 in non-private mode). The rest of the entries are the same. Nethertheless "Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking."
Liquid_Fire 3y ago
That claim sounds completely plausible to me. What part seems wrong to you?
burkaman 3y ago
That sounds about right. US+Canada population is about 5% of the world, and eastern time is just a slice of that. People in ET are more likely to be internet users than people in some other parts of the world, so that apparently brings the percentage back up to around 5%. However it also says that 42% of users are on Firefox, which definitely suggests that this isn't a totally representative sample.
- capableweb 3y ago
  I'm guessing that most people who visits a website called "My browser fingerprint" with a domain of "amiunique.org" has at least a fleeting interest in privacy and making choices around that. And that group is most likely biased to using Firefox instead of Google Chrome, at least compared to a general section of the population.
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I tried EFF's version* and it also said my Firefox browser was unique: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 179,689 tested in the past 45 days. However the fonts listed looked to be only system fonts so there's that. *https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

ComputerGuru 3y ago
The EFF version also tells you for each metric how (dis)similar you are from other users/devices. Or at least it’s supposed to - for one of them which was supposed to be a true/false boolean test, it said my browser revealed -1.00 bits of information and shared its value for that test with 1 out of every 1 device they saw.
ta1243 3y ago
I don't really get that "unique" fingerprint Sure I'm unique. I try it in private mode. > Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 180,370 tested in the past 45 days. Close down the window, switch VPN endpoint, and retry, and once again I'm unique. > Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 180,381 tested in the past 45 days. Looking at the values it seems they are identical. How do they know that the two tests are the same user If I try outside of private mode I see differences in DNT (set to true in private mode, false in not private mode) and in Hardware Concurrency (4 in private mode, 2 in non-private mode). The rest of the entries are the same. Nethertheless "Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking."

Liquid_Fire 3y ago

That claim sounds completely plausible to me. What part seems wrong to you?

burkaman 3y ago

That sounds about right. US+Canada population is about 5% of the world, and eastern time is just a slice of that. People in ET are more likely to be internet users than people in some other parts of the world, so that apparently brings the percentage back up to around 5%. However it also says that 42% of users are on Firefox, which definitely suggests that this isn't a totally representative sample.

capableweb 3y ago
I'm guessing that most people who visits a website called "My browser fingerprint" with a domain of "amiunique.org" has at least a fleeting interest in privacy and making choices around that. And that group is most likely biased to using Firefox instead of Google Chrome, at least compared to a general section of the population.

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