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If I was a fingerprinting company, I'd be cross-referencing signals between browsers for sure. If the browser header says windows but the fonts available says
by michaelt 11mo ago
If I was a fingerprinting company, I'd be cross-referencing signals between browsers for sure.
If the browser header says windows but the fonts available says linux, that's a very distinctive signal.
And if the UA says Chrome but some other signal says not-chrome, that's very distinctive as well.
- nativeit 11mo agoYou said it better than I did.
- biztos 11mo agoSurely this is true, but if you’re a fingerprinting company aren’t you making so much money violating the privacy of the masses that it’s not worth your time going after the tiny set of Freedom Nerds trying to evade you?
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoThey aren't specifically going after you... they just try to create a unique hash from everything they can and by doing weird things to your system you are making a truly unique hash easier
- jijijijij 11mo agoYeah, and my passwords are so obvious and stupid, nobody's gonna guess them! I think, you are falling for a technical fallacy. It's not costing them any more time.