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by rdancer 3683 days ago
When everybody was running Windows on a smorgasbord of hardware / patchlevel / plugins / fonts, it was easy to fingerprint. Are we moving towards a more monolithic landscape where fingerprinting is less able to track individual users?

* If I have a fleet of Chromebooks running the same version of Chrome OS, will they all have the same fingerprint?

* Will, say, all iPhones 6 with the same hardware parts, running the same Mobile Safari and iOS version, have the same fingerprint?

Thank you!

1 comments

Why yes, some monoculture has made fingerprinting harder. Try [0] with a few of those devices.

0: https://panopticlick.eff.org/