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New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint

"Does your web browser have a unique fingerprint? If so your web browser could be tracked across websites without techniques such as tracking cookies..." warns a new site created by the University of Adelaide and ACEMS, adding "the anonymization aspects of services such as Tor or VPNs could be negated if sites you visit track you using your browser fingerprint." AnonymousCube contacted Slashdot about their free browser fingerprinting test suite: On the site you can see what data can be used to track you and how unique your fingerprint is. The site includes new tests, such as detecting software such as Privacy Badger, via how social media buttons are disabled, and CSS only (no JavaScript or flash) tests to get screen size and installed fonts.
If you're serious about privacy, you might want to test the uniqueness of your browser's fingerprint.

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  1. Re: Trump 2016 by Joce640k · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's go back to the great days when the colored people had to sit at the back of the bus and weren't allowed through the front door of hotels, etc.

    Or even the days when the government paid for scalps taken from colored people. They were even greater!

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