New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:35AM from the unique-identifiers dept.

"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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I READ STORIES FROM BOTTOM TO TOP AND GOT THIS by Anonymous Coward · 2016-07-31 12:34 · Score: 0, Troll

EditorDavid is mother fucking FBI.
DO NOT CLICK that site in the summary or you just related your browser and ip in totality to the FBI.
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there are two legit browser fingerprint scanners, and of the two one of them doesn't require javascript.
1) https://panopticlick.eff.org/
2) browserspy.dk
The first one is EFF and fine. No javascript required for basic test.
The second one is sort of hackish, but you want to use NoScript to block gstatic and google-analytics because using browserspy.dk with javascript enabled (required) and not blocking google-analytics and gstatic... does the same thing as the link in this summary. It sends your fucking PC data ... browser fingerprint and IP... to the mother fucking US governmenet. Google is straight up Pentagon. Eric Schmidt is not their custodian.
So.. back to fuck your mama's spies.