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How Identifiable Are You On the Web?

Posted by timothy on from the your-unique-aroma dept.

An anonymous reader writes How identifiable are you on the web? This updated browser fingerprinting tool implements the current state of the art in browser fingerprinting techniques(including canvas fingerprinting) to show you how unique your browser is on the web. Good food for thought when three-letter agencies talk about "mere metadata."

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  1. Totally and completely identifiable... by Bob_Who · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Always have been, and always will, for as long as light echos through space and time. But nobody really cares who I am. They know who I am, nevertheless.

    I am the walrus.

  2. Numbers Don't Lie, But -- by Anna+Merikin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their sample size is 11-thousand. According to my results, 1-in-6 computers are running Linux!

    This is absurd, unscientific to the extreme, fear-mongering.

    In your example, based only on the statistics you provided, there were 11099x0.0109 or 120 people in the central time zone *in their sample*, which is the sample size of UTC-6 users.

    Their data is useless.

    In comparison, https://panopticlick.eff.org/i... has almost 5-million in their database. This is somewhat more helpful.