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I'm confused as well, apparently my browser (stock firefox on Ubuntu) is completely unique. I would expect it to be reasonably rare but certainly not that rare.
by jiggy2011 14y ago
I'm confused as well, apparently my browser (stock firefox on Ubuntu) is completely unique. I would expect it to be reasonably rare but certainly not that rare.
I haven't done the math, but I have a feeling it just keeps dividing by the "one in x browsers have this value". Maybe it doesn't look at the intersections , for example: Using Totem as the default wmv player is rare and using Ubuntu is rare but reporting Totem as .wmv player is going to be a lot less rare amongst Ubuntu users that it is amongst Windows users.
- edmccard 14y ago>I haven't done the math, but I have a feeling it just keeps dividing... Why would it have to use division, or for that matter, any kind of math at all? I imagine that as each new visitor is recorded, they simply count how many other visitors had the exact same browser configuration. The "one in x browsers have this value" column is probably just for informative purposes (and not the raw data that was somehow munged to determine the uniqueness of your browser fingerprint).
- Evbn 14y agoIt has nowhere near the traffic to give the resolution it claims based on simple counting.
- edmccard 14y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "resolution"; the site doesn't claim that a browser fingerprint is unique among all instances of all browser software ever run, just that (for example, to quote from my test results) "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,568,783 tested so far".