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So uh… By using fennec and sometimes a VPN. Am I making myself more unique and fingerprint able?
Should I be using something that sends randomised bogus data instead?
Here I thought I was private but some of these 1% figures makes it look like I’m very unique and easily tracked.
Should I be using something that sends randomised bogus data instead?
Mine is sending that my primary language is English, but that I know other languages (I don’t), but it’d be nice to have a tool messes with them more.
Looks like it doesn’t know shit about me. Just that I am on an iPhone and my general location from the IP. Not surprising at all.
Maybe this is more thrilling for android users?
This specific website only shows information that the browser is freely offering. Basically you open the page, and without the website even asking for anything, that’s the information it’s getting. It’s not querying any data points, or trying to tie any of them together. This is just your browser saying “Hi, we just met, so here’s a bunch of stuff you may want to know about me.”
If they want to know more, they can just ask and the browser will give more information. If there’s information the browser doesn’t want to share, the website can infer a bunch more information.
Nothing exceptional here, except it did know I was on an android. Guess its time to change all my passwords lol.
all trackers hate this one trick
Unironically a solid way to block a lot of tracking. Although they can still fingerprint you I think.
Nothing makes you more unique than being one of the few people who disable java script
Better a known locked door than inviting them into your home
Only a handful of data points surfaces by this website come from JS APIs, most are either header-based or some other browser behaviour that is independent from JS
which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display
lolno
Both recent and high end are rather flexable terms, open wide to interpretation.
So it doesn’t mean anything and only sounds scawwy, cool.
Funny how websites can read the gyroscope. It can also be used as a microphone. https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/
Madness! This entire shit show should incur a stalking charge. It’s disgusting this is even allowed.
It sounds like an Android/Google issue. The website told me that it could not read my gyroscope because I’m on iOS and Apple has not allowed websites to read it since 2019.
It already got my location very wrong.
Onion Browser with Orbot set to gold - site can’t see shit. So that works!
Thanks for sharing, I was already using a decent anti-fingerprinting browser (Fennec) but the fact that it gave away my timezone made me research a bit more and I’m now on IronFox, which has a toggle to spoof it, and reports a fake screen resolution. Great! I’m now unique on coveryourtracks though
So a prettier and minimal version of https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ ?
This is a much more detailed, less “fear mongering AI” version of the other website. Thanks for sharing!
Kinda like they feed Cover Your Tracks to an LLM’s template so you can experience the data in narrative form
(No LLM used when you visit the site, just when they built it, is what I’m guessing here)
I hit it with Firefox and it gave 24 points. Firefox refused to disclose my battery level. But did give it my angular geometry.
I opened it in Brave and it lied about my screen resolution and colored up my fonts, my battery. It refused to give up my angular geometry.
Why the hell doesn’t firefox just include some of those white lies?
My jaw dropped when I read the what angle my device is being held at, how many times I scrolled and tapped, what my position is!!!
How is this even legal?!
I always thought they just took my location, my device name etc. I had no idea it’s this deep.
Your device carries these typefaces, of the seventeen commonly probed by fingerprinting checks. The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters
What the fuck why is my browser telling random websites what fonts I have installed? Shouldn’t that be completely irrelevant to everyone except me and my particular device?
So it can know which fonts it can use and your device would be able to display them?
Why doesn’t it just let the site display whatever it wants and let me worry about the issue of whether they display properly
The site could also be set to display whatever font it wants but also set to list standard fonts that also work which the browser can then choose from on the user’s end if the user doesn’t have the first choice font. That way you the user don’t have to worry about it and there is no way to fingerprint by the browser just handing out an entire list of fonts installed on the user’s system. There are plenty of ways to make things like this work, but the incentive is to keep them as they are or to increase uniqueness so people can be more easily fingerprinted.
It should be, yes. But browsers like Chrome are literally made by the company that stands to profit from fingerprinting you, so they’re always going to be made to make it easy to do just that. Firefox at least has “resist fingerprinting” option which apparently can limit font visibility to only base system fonts rather than fonts you installed and language-pack fonts. LibreWolf has this on out of the box.
Thats part of how you’re fingerprinted.
This post helped me discover that my SurfShark VPN built-in kill switch does not work within the Android app. My home IP was showing.
I turned kill switch on at the OS level and my IP was correctly showing the VPN IP.
Enable the kill switch in the VPN settings of Android
central europe, maybe its due to architecture the isp has wifi access points around the city and people connect to them
back when it was starting there wasnt even isolation between clients, we used to send random shit to printers on the network as kids
It identified my many-years-old phone with “360x760 pixels rendered at 3x density” screen as “recent, high-end display”. Bitch, this wasn’t even high-end when I bought it. It was small, it was cheap, it was barely “recent” when I bought it.
