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Share your coveryourtracks score! (coveryourtracks.eff.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What score does your browser(s) get?

I'll start: I got:

one in ~25000 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For what it's worth I just tested.

Tor browser 13.0.1, plus U-Block origin, fingerprint.com did not identify two different sessions

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I should test again then, not sure what happened

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just did a fresh install on Linux (fresh download too) and unfortunately, with no settings changed except security to "Safer", it once again identified me across multiple sessions.

FWIW it does change my ID if I resize the window enough to jump to a different size letterbox.

Edit: forgot to mention, the fresh install got a different ID ti the previous install.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something is very curious about your install.

if you want to debug this: in tor browser, double check your using tor, try out whatismyipaddress.com, change circuits and make sure it changes again.

Look at the bits of entropy that coveryourtracks.eff.org shows, it could be something funky like an environment variable letting in system fonts.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'll do some investigating, good to know that the Tor browser isn't at fault though (I probably should've operated under this assumption in the first place).