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by dan_the_welder 5985 days ago
Initial after some browsing:

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 71,124 tested so far.

Enabled Private Browsing:

Within our dataset of about ten thousand visitors, only one in 36,313 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

A few minutes later public browsing:

Within our dataset of about ten thousand visitors, only one in 18,187 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

How did they go from 70k to 10k? WTF EFF?

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Hmm.. I only saw bunch of MySQL errors after running the test. But it made me unique :)

[Edit] Now that I tested again with two of the browsers I am using, both browsers were labelled as unique :S

Browsers are Epiphany with Webkit-backend and Firefox, both on 64-bit Gentoo Linux.