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ranger_danger 2mo ago
My understanding is that this tool only compares how identifiable you are compared to the other people who have previously visited the site.
thenthenthen 2mo ago
“ Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 311,902 tested in the past 45 days.” yet every cloudflare protected website blocks me, random human checks and also my bank and government is blocked. Mmmmm grain of salt?
- zamadatix 2mo ago
  I think you have it backwards - Cloudflare et al would want to allow the typical user and block the oddballs. That said, it's a further misunderstanding with utilizing such tools in general. Unique is neither good nor bad on its own. The next question is "always the same unique because that's all you share or always unique because certain fingerprintable attributes are randomized over time/visits/sessions". I.e. it's a war between trying to fake an average enough fingerprint and trying to track someone through partial matches, not just a matter of "is the fingerprint unique".
- nutsu 2mo ago
  uniqueness, on one way or another, does not imply you're a real person. those systems probably don't even rely on fingerprinting for those decisions - you just can't deny someone acceess to a service because "they're unique", you're opening a can of worms. entities that do deny access based on fingerprinting actually do it based on same fingerprints corresponding to a marked visitor (like checking behaviour and marking all subsequent visitors with that fp as bad) - but it's a headache. what you describe usually has more to do with your IP (range, usage type, country), your useragent or added/modified headers (check any extensions that do this) i had exactly this happen some years ago when i added a `'` in the UserAgent to test a site for SQL injection and forgot to remove it.
- nijave 2mo ago
  Could be bad IP rep. Cloudflare isn't about uniqueness, it's about a reputation score. Presumably some overlap but not necessarily identical. I started getting those more often when I moved 2 years ago and switched from Charter cable to AT&T fiber. The same hardware was transported 2 miles away...
queenkjuul 2mo ago
This is better than the OP in practically every conceivable way

My understanding is that this tool only compares how identifiable you are compared to the other people who have previously visited the site.

thenthenthen 2mo ago

“ Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 311,902 tested in the past 45 days.” yet every cloudflare protected website blocks me, random human checks and also my bank and government is blocked. Mmmmm grain of salt?

zamadatix 2mo ago
I think you have it backwards - Cloudflare et al would want to allow the typical user and block the oddballs. That said, it's a further misunderstanding with utilizing such tools in general. Unique is neither good nor bad on its own. The next question is "always the same unique because that's all you share or always unique because certain fingerprintable attributes are randomized over time/visits/sessions". I.e. it's a war between trying to fake an average enough fingerprint and trying to track someone through partial matches, not just a matter of "is the fingerprint unique".
nutsu 2mo ago
uniqueness, on one way or another, does not imply you're a real person. those systems probably don't even rely on fingerprinting for those decisions - you just can't deny someone acceess to a service because "they're unique", you're opening a can of worms. entities that do deny access based on fingerprinting actually do it based on same fingerprints corresponding to a marked visitor (like checking behaviour and marking all subsequent visitors with that fp as bad) - but it's a headache. what you describe usually has more to do with your IP (range, usage type, country), your useragent or added/modified headers (check any extensions that do this) i had exactly this happen some years ago when i added a `'` in the UserAgent to test a site for SQL injection and forgot to remove it.
nijave 2mo ago
Could be bad IP rep. Cloudflare isn't about uniqueness, it's about a reputation score. Presumably some overlap but not necessarily identical. I started getting those more often when I moved 2 years ago and switched from Charter cable to AT&T fiber. The same hardware was transported 2 miles away...

queenkjuul 2mo ago

This is better than the OP in practically every conceivable way