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EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 (eff.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Peter Eckersley writes: The EFF has launched Panopticlick 2.0. In addition to measuring whether your browser exposes unique — and therefore trackable — settings and configuration to websites, the site can now test if you have correctly configured ad- and tracker-blocking software. Think you have correctly configured tracker-blocking software? Visit Panopticlick to test if you got it right.

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  1. doesn't work without javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The site doesn't work at all for me. Presumably, it requires javascript, which is exactly what nobody should be enabling by default. Javascript has been one of the largest exploit vectors of the modern web. It should at best be whitelisted on a very, very few sites such as trusted banking and finance sites. But absolutely not enabled in general - that's a big part of how people's systems end up severely jacked.