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> And the reality is that even a really precise fingerprint has a half-life of only a few days (especially if it's based on characteristics like window size or
by minitech 1y ago
> And the reality is that even a really precise fingerprint has a half-life of only a few days (especially if it's based on characteristics like window size or software versions).
A fingerprint that changes only by the increase of a browser version isn’t dead; it’s stronger.
- legitster 1y agoI'm not sure if I understand this. If you show up on a website one day with one fingerprint, but on the next day it was a different fingerprint, there's no way to connect that it's the same device unless it wasn't a core trait of the fingerprint in the first place.
- kemotep 1y agoIf everything is the same but the browser version, a day later how is that not the same person?
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- orev 1y agoI think you’re thinking that the fingerprint is reported as a single hash (e.g. SHA512) of multiple attributes, which would of course change if a single bit was different. But there’s no reason they would be reported that way. It could be (and probably more likely) a big data structure of all the values. It would be easy to see that only a few things changed.
- gruez 1y ago>it’s stronger. marginally given that most browsers auto-update.