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How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (You're being tracked based on how unique your browser settings are)
Electronic Frontier Foundation ^
Posted on 06/04/2011 6:29:49 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
WOW! Uniquely identifiable as the only one out of 1.6 million tested!
I have plugins for my Wacom tablet, for Silverlight, Flash, and a bunch of nice fonts I’ve got installed.
Quite an eye-opener!
Ed
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posted on
06/05/2011 12:09:59 PM PDT
by
Sir_Ed
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
Sorry for the delay on this one--I was busy this weekend :)
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posted on
06/06/2011 5:27:52 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: LibWhacker
Interesting.
I originally ran the test with my NoScript turned on, and it returned a 1 in ~600,000. When I turned it off, I was 1 in 1.6M.
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posted on
06/06/2011 5:32:38 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: LibWhacker
There is no privacy on the web.
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posted on
06/06/2011 7:52:48 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(We're flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us.)
To: lmsii
1,610,258
I suspect the number tends to reflect your lack of interest in being a follower.
You have to admit, being unique among 1.5 million sampled is pretty cool.
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posted on
06/06/2011 8:25:40 AM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
To: LibWhacker
Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 57,512 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.Great, just great...
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posted on
06/06/2011 8:58:40 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(‘Simple way to understand the importance of private property: Have you ever washed a rental car?’)
To: LibWhacker
...first learned about tracking unique browser fingerprints while reading a liberal website. They were all in a frenzy over it. Libs always make fun of how dumb Republicans are. But Freepers should take heart; I read all the libs’ comments and Freepers are head and shoulders ahead of them in understanding the problem. Would've been my first guess...
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:12:26 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(‘Simple way to understand the importance of private property: Have you ever washed a rental car?’)
To: DBrow
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,611,607 tested so far.
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posted on
06/07/2011 2:55:30 AM PDT
by
publana
(Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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