But Fred Durst did it all for the cookie!
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Almost all of the data it showed me was inaccurate, whew. Firefox doing a good job there.
That helps less than you'd think, fingerprinting doesn't need to be accurate,
incorrect, it needs to be very accurate if it's actually going to track you. If you block tracking scripts and all a website can do is fingerprint you then they're getting nothing besides "you read this article" or "you visited this page" with no way to sell that data. noticeably the ad sales section was almost completely empty for me. If a single bit of my information changes the previous fingerprint was completely useless.
also this site is just making shit up 😂
output when I typed a single letter at a type with half a second between each, and quit the sentence as soon as it said I could:
Your typing rhythm is steady and practised, you spend a lot of time at a keyboard.how? You type at about 45 words a minute.how?
output when I typed full speed
Your typing rhythm is uneven, hunt-and-peck, or you were distracted.how? You type at about 105 words a minute.how?
Timezone America/Denver 0.8% of people - 1 in 297,619
is just laughably incorrect though. maybe it's based on how many people have actually visited the site like that? but most people have multiple devices, if not a work computer and cell phone at minimum. that would mean only 150k people have America/Denver as their time zone, when the reality is probably 10-15 million, so this number is actually more like 1 in 20-30million
firefox nicely randomizes output between runs, so it was 16core the first time, 8 core the second time.
finally this "1 in x" is just laughably wrong. it always says 1 in 133.2 million, even if I give it more data like the size of my screen (which is 1 in tens of millions).
not saying that fingerprinting doesn't work, it obviously does, but this site is shit and doesn't prove that point at all.
>connects to site with NoScript
>nothing loads
>checkmate 😎
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First time here, and you typed the link in yourself, bold. Either way, I'll remember you now. That's rather the point.how?
nope, clicked a link on lemmy
Holly f...
Is there a fingerprint randomizing browser or plugin yet? Last time I lazily researched it there just wasn't one good enough, I keep limping along with ublock and umatrix and all that.
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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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Doesn't remember me using Firefox Focus, which is the point of that browser. Pegged me at 1:119M.
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