On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.
What would be considered a high score on this? Is 16 too high?
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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If I tried twice and I got a unique id both times, does it mean Firefox is covering my track ?
if it ran the test again, I'd say yes. but if it just reloads the result page, doesn't mean anything
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Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,996 tested in the past 45 days.
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If you have canvas randomisation turned on (firefox) you'll always be unique but also not traceable between sessions.
Yup, canvas is heavily weighted in this test based on the results.
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"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,614 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.49 bits of identifying information."
Chat am I cooked?
Same result here. I'm using Gnome-web, which is already pretty niche, so that probably really lowers my score.
Huh mullvad browser got me the lowest overall. 10.44 bits and a non-unique fingerprint.
Compared against:
- Firefox with arkenfox user.js (macOS)
- Tor (macOS and android)
- Vanadium (android)
- Cromite (android)
- Mull (different than mullvad) (android)
I do a vast majority of my browsing on my phone, unfortunately. Vanadium scored the best (on mobile), but it not having extensions (dark reader is a must) and the navigation bar not being movable to the bottom of the screen keeps me on Mull.
I don't love using mullvad for day to day browsing as I can't whitelist specific cookies to retain. Don't love having to re 2fa daily.
Despite having strong protection according to these results, I always get unique fingerprinting from them. Which is scary.
Edit: Now I tried Tor on my desktop and got:
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 628.7 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.3 bits of identifying information.
12.67 from Safari/iPhone, without changing any settings. This is my most commonly used browser
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 91389.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.48 bits of identifying information
Doesn't look good. How do you make it so that your browser doesn't have a fingerprint at all?
You can't not have a finger print. You can a best try and look like everyone elses.Sadly the free market won't care and as such you won't blend with normal users. Still you can try and look like ever one else in the privacy community
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It seems like the characteristics of my Android tablet doom me here - I was unique even using Chrome.
I misread the title as "Cover your taxes" and got really excited to earn about tax avoidance tips. Legal ones obviously.
With browser settings that actually let me use the internet in a way that's not overly cumbersome and annoying, I get 16bits or something and a "nearly unique fingerprint"
Block any and all ads, then it doesn't matter that they have your data if they can't make money off of it (they still will do that by creating data aggregates but you can't control that)
After disabling extension "I still don't care about cookies" on Librewolf, I went from 17.48 bits unique fingerprint to 16.48 nearly unique one.
I’m unique :) this ain’t great