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There are a few obvious ones I knew would be bad for me - the Linux user agent, for example. My canvas also came up unique and I'm betting Dark Reader had somet
by ryukoposting 1y ago
There are a few obvious ones I knew would be bad for me - the Linux user agent, for example. My canvas also came up unique and I'm betting Dark Reader had something to do with that.
But then there's other things that don't make any sense. How is "NVIDIA Corporation" only 0.74% for "WebGL Vendor?" Why does navigator.hardwareConcurrency even exist?
- bitmasher9 1y agoMy vendor “Apple Computer, Inc” was less than 10% (I’m on iPhone) so I suspect HN crowd probably uses unusual hardware. While my timezone (in USA) and device vendor are both single digit rare, combining the two probably leaks less information than you’d expect because my timezone has a much higher density of Apple devices than global averages. It’s really not until you take into consideration a few other variables that you could really finger print me pretty decently.
- robin_reala 1y ago0.74% does seem a bit low, but most people browse the web on mobile phones, so knock off 50-70% immediately, then of the remaining most will be integrated GPUs from Intel or AMD in laptops. Take away Macs and you’re basically just left with gaming PCs, and laptops where the browser decided the task was difficult enough to spin up a discrete nVidia GPU.
- einr 1y ago”NVIDIA Corporation” is a rare vendor because most browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox on Windows) use ANGLE and will report ”Google Inc. (NVIDIA Corporation)” as a vendor. Basically, ”NVIDIA Corporation” means you are Firefox on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU — or Firefox on macOS with an NVIDIA GPU, which is probably even rarer.