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Yes. It makes me unique. Every visit. If I visit the site 10 times, you have 10 unique IDs.

rafram 1y ago
And if the site loads 100 iframes, it can figure out the distribution of values that your browser returns, which doesn’t change, and is likely to be close to unique until many people are using the same setup as you. (Or it can just use properties of the extension like monkey-patched function toString() outputs to identify its users, which, again, narrows it down to a very small group.)
- Beijinger 1y ago
  Yes! You are unique among the 4162412 fingerprints in our entire dataset. Yes! You are unique among the 4162649 fingerprints in our entire dataset. Two visits... https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
  - rafram 1y ago
    Yeah, you get the exact same results in two separate incognito sessions in stock Chrome. They don't immediately add your fingerprint to their database. (And that site isn't using the state of the art in fingerprinting - check https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/ for a slightly better indicator.)
    - Beijinger 1y ago
      https://fingerprint.com/demo/ https://fingerprint.com/demo/ Yes, fingerprint.com realizes that I am the same visitor. But ONLY IF I access it from the same IP address. This is impressive, but in the end not so much. They claim VPN does not matter for them. It does. Probably one of the last things that makes my browser identifiable.
      - rafram 1y ago
        > Yes, fingerprint.com realizes that I am the same visitor. QED...
        Beijinger 1y ago
        Yes, based on IP address. Great achievement. I change my IP, I am unique again. And they want money for this? Nice try.
      - miki123211 1y ago
        Haha, that failed spectacularly. On stock Mac OS Safari (no plugins, no hardened config), I did what they asked and visited their site in incognito mode via a VPN. It gave me a different id, with a message gleefully announcing that "your ID is the same when you're in incognito mode!" It even showed me some supposed visit from a minute ago. Jesus what a scam.
        agoodwinfp 1y ago
        Hi, I work at Fingerprint. Our demo accuracy is actually much lower than in production. You're welcome to try it yourself for free: https://dashboard.fingerprint.com/signup https://dashboard.fingerprint.com/signup
        raxxorraxor 1y ago
        Please do something constructive with your life, that is also quite free in some instances.

And if the site loads 100 iframes, it can figure out the distribution of values that your browser returns, which doesn’t change, and is likely to be close to unique until many people are using the same setup as you. (Or it can just use properties of the extension like monkey-patched function toString() outputs to identify its users, which, again, narrows it down to a very small group.)

Beijinger 1y ago
Yes! You are unique among the 4162412 fingerprints in our entire dataset. Yes! You are unique among the 4162649 fingerprints in our entire dataset. Two visits... https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
- rafram 1y ago
  Yeah, you get the exact same results in two separate incognito sessions in stock Chrome. They don't immediately add your fingerprint to their database. (And that site isn't using the state of the art in fingerprinting - check https://fingerprint.com/ https://fingerprint.com/ for a slightly better indicator.)
  - Beijinger 1y ago
    https://fingerprint.com/demo/ https://fingerprint.com/demo/ Yes, fingerprint.com realizes that I am the same visitor. But ONLY IF I access it from the same IP address. This is impressive, but in the end not so much. They claim VPN does not matter for them. It does. Probably one of the last things that makes my browser identifiable.
    - rafram 1y ago
      > Yes, fingerprint.com realizes that I am the same visitor. QED...
      - Beijinger 1y ago
        Yes, based on IP address. Great achievement. I change my IP, I am unique again. And they want money for this? Nice try.
    - miki123211 1y ago
      Haha, that failed spectacularly. On stock Mac OS Safari (no plugins, no hardened config), I did what they asked and visited their site in incognito mode via a VPN. It gave me a different id, with a message gleefully announcing that "your ID is the same when you're in incognito mode!" It even showed me some supposed visit from a minute ago. Jesus what a scam.
      - agoodwinfp 1y ago
        Hi, I work at Fingerprint. Our demo accuracy is actually much lower than in production. You're welcome to try it yourself for free: https://dashboard.fingerprint.com/signup https://dashboard.fingerprint.com/signup
        raxxorraxor 1y ago
        Please do something constructive with your life, that is also quite free in some instances.