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On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,614 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.49 bits of identifying information."
Chat am I cooked?
Same result here. I'm using Gnome-web, which is already pretty niche, so that probably really lowers my score.
Despite having strong protection according to these results, I always get unique fingerprinting from them. Which is scary.
Edit: Now I tried Tor on my desktop and got:
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 628.7 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.3 bits of identifying information.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,996 tested in the past 45 days.
:(
12.67 from Safari/iPhone, without changing any settings. This is my most commonly used browser
Huh mullvad browser got me the lowest overall. 10.44 bits and a non-unique fingerprint.
Compared against:
I do a vast majority of my browsing on my phone, unfortunately. Vanadium scored the best (on mobile), but it not having extensions (dark reader is a must) and the navigation bar not being movable to the bottom of the screen keeps me on Mull.
I don't love using mullvad for day to day browsing as I can't whitelist specific cookies to retain. Don't love having to re 2fa daily.
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 91389.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.48 bits of identifying information
Doesn't look good. How do you make it so that your browser doesn't have a fingerprint at all?
You can't not have a finger print. You can a best try and look like everyone elses.Sadly the free market won't care and as such you won't blend with normal users. Still you can try and look like ever one else in the privacy community
Close it.
Best methods to lower the score on android? I tested multiple browsers on EFF. 17 bits regardless of browser.
I misread the title as "Cover your taxes" and got really excited to earn about tax avoidance tips. Legal ones obviously.
I appreciate the site, but what score is considered good or bad? A cool stat would be some kind of score compared to everyone else.
After disabling extension "I still don't care about cookies" on Librewolf, I went from 17.48 bits unique fingerprint to 16.48 nearly unique one.
What would be considered a high score on this? Is 16 too high?
If I tried twice and I got a unique id both times, does it mean Firefox is covering my track ?
Idk, but I have the same. Scrolling through the tracking methods the only ones with high uniqueness were hash of canvas fingerprint and hash of webGL for me. According to it I still have strong protection Firefox + ublock on mobile though
if it ran the test again, I'd say yes. but if it just reloads the result page, doesn't mean anything
It seems like the characteristics of my Android tablet doom me here - I was unique even using Chrome.