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Website detects whether you have LaTeX installed [among many other things] (kuber.studio)
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[–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The receipt

Putting it together: roughly 1 in 132.1 million browsers look like yours. None of this used a cookie

Second visit: We've met before

I've seen you before, you first showed up earlier today. This is visit number 2. And you came straight here, no link, no search. You remembered the URL by heart. That is almost sweet.how?

And you cleared some of it, 2 of my hiding places were empty when you arrived. I restored them from the ones you missed. This is what tracking looks like without cookies.how?

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    I'm dubious of the stats. Sure if you include China, India, and Africa, your 1in 100M.

    But let's look at it the other way.

    East Coast population: 128M Android: 30% US = 38M

    Primary language English: 77% (realistically for people in US browsing it's closer to 90%)

    = 29 M

    Screen Resolution was wrong.

    But realistically it's identifying your phone model which tend to have unique resolutions. Phones outnumber desktops 8 to 1. So it identified my Pixel which is 4%.

    It claims "Do not track on" is rare at 1 in 186,000 but that's the default for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

    So that means I'm in a pool of 1.1M other users.

    Now there are other fingerprints that can narrow it down more, but imo standing in a crowd of over 1M identical people is sort of anonymous.

    Btw, I got the same 1in 132M number that you got.

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