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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm dubious of the stats. Sure if you include China, India, and Africa, your 1in 100M.

But let's look at it the other way.

East Coast population: 128M Android: 30% US = 38M

Primary language English: 77% (realistically for people in US browsing it's closer to 90%)

= 29 M

Screen Resolution was wrong.

But realistically it's identifying your phone model which tend to have unique resolutions. Phones outnumber desktops 8 to 1. So it identified my Pixel which is 4%.

It claims "Do not track on" is rare at 1 in 186,000 but that's the default for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

So that means I'm in a pool of 1.1M other users.

Now there are other fingerprints that can narrow it down more, but imo standing in a crowd of over 1M identical people is sort of anonymous.

Btw, I got the same 1in 132M number that you got.

this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2026
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