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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 123 points 4 months ago

This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you're unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.

[-] sobchak@programming.dev 32 points 4 months ago

TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago

Yes and it will appear unique every time because every visit is using a different combination.

You'll be unique be less trackable.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago

i used to think that firefox on linux and as plain-jane-generic as you could get besides windows; but no, i'm ultra unique:

Yes! You are unique among the 5084762 fingerprints in our entire dataset.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.

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[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Attribute number 1 already says 0%. We're done here.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

They basically asked for your name, birth date, and mother's maiden name, and your browser just gave it to them and offered even more.

[-] MakingWork@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Is there no add on, for Firefox, for example, to stop or confuse fingerprinting?

Any suggestions?

For Android.

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[-] zeezee@slrpnk.net 84 points 4 months ago

all trackers hate this one trick

[-] Zach777@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 months ago

Unironically a solid way to block a lot of tracking. Although they can still fingerprint you I think.

[-] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 52 points 4 months ago

Nothing makes you more unique than being one of the few people who disable java script

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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] nixukty@lemmy.zip 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Vibe coded af, how has nobody spotted this. The website swears the text was written by a human, and either they have contracted chronic GPT-virus or are an LLM

edit: this is made by Rise Up Labs which is an ai psychosis company

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

How can you tell that it was vibe coded? Genuine question.

[-] nixukty@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago

AI is quite good at web design now, but it still has a distinct style. Claude in particular LOVES to mix serif and monospace fonts. This isn't necessarily a guarantee based on just that, but it did trigger my alarm bells.

The second biggest thing is the language. LLMs absolutely SPAM slightly vague, short phrases separated by punctuation.

The language on each data point also is pretty repetitive which implies either sub agents were called or the model was asked individually to write something about it in a specific tone.

The final nail in the coffin was the company that made it, Rise up labs, which advertised all their AI software on their home page

[-] jpeps@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

One clue to me is the "how many times you moved" statement. One actual human "move" is worth hundreds of what the site calls a move. A human would notice that but the reality of it means nothing to an AI.

Secondly just the language used being quite dramatic but also generic.

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[-] plz1@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago

"We know your IP address". No kidding, that's how IPv4 works, even if the browser wasn't ~~leaking~~ offering it.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

The point is not that they know your IP, but that even your IP already gives away information. That's why they start with the information, rather than the IP being the source.

This is not intended to be for people who understand how this works.

And as someone else said, probably vibe coded.

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[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 4 months ago

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And yet here they are showing me their webpage in darkmode 😒

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[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 months ago

Really interesting and slightly scary, thanks for sharing!

[-] brillotti@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Funny how websites can read the gyroscope. It can also be used as a microphone. https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

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[-] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago
[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Interesting that this one doesn't detect my battery (says it's blocked) but the one OP posted can see it

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago
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[-] pwxd@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 months ago

🗿

the data is still there tho

[-] pwxd@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago

Can't trust vibecoded website tbh cause they're just saying BS there, as longest the javascripts off, it wouldn't be able to obtain the obvious data of your devices

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You absolute can fingerprint someone without JavaScript enabled. This article explains what signals a website can use when JS is disabled, and those signals include probing what CSS features your browsers supports.

https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-fingerprinting/

Unfortunately it looks like the demo link in their article doesn’t exist anymore. It definitely used to, because I remember testing it few years ago. But the write up is still good.

Looks like the demo is open source: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/blog-nojs-fingerprint-demo

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[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 months ago
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[-] Stimpy@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 19 points 4 months ago

I'm glad it acknowledges explains the impacts of anti-fingerprinting measures. I've seen some others assume that a random canvas is unique rather than one of the many people randomising it the same way, leading to a false "unique" assessment.

Your browser appears to be returning the viewport in place of the real screen — anti-fingerprinting at work. The substitution is itself distinctive.

Your browser masked your graphics processor. Firefox and Safari have started returning generic strings — "Mozilla", "Apple", "or similar" — instead of the real renderer. The fact that yours did so tells us, with reasonable confidence, which browser you are running. The mask is also a fingerprint.

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[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Great news. My VPN is working!

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[-] beernutz@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago

Your finger moved 899 times.. what????

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[-] magnue@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I found it interesting that it knows my battery level and current orientation of the phone.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

I can understand the latter since it might want to render differently, but why does it need to know the battery level?

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[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 points 4 months ago

This volume requires JavaScript. That is part of the point — your browser is what is being read.

Looks like I'm safe

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 12 points 4 months ago

Well then I am glad that it got most of it wrong. I don't even put thaat much emphasis on fingerprinting countermeasures. Apparently, using Firefox in a private tab is enough.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

Time to start installing and uninstalling random fonts everyday.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And then you become even more identifiable cause you're part of the 10 madmen in Google's database who do it

[-] Spezi@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago

In reality hes the only madmen but switches IPs in between

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 11 points 4 months ago

which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display

lolno

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[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago
[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Opend it in Tor Browser inside a Whonix dispVM inside Qubes OS it got nothing on me

[-] FE80@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Welp, my user agent switcher is successfully purporting to be a different operating system.

[-] Programman4233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

why would my browser share a list of fonts?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

so the site knows what it can render

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