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by jfb 4945 days ago
See: https://panopticlick.eff.org
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jiggy2011 4945 days ago
Interesting , I just cleared cookies and tried that and apparently my browser is unique.

I guess it would be somewhat rare (I am running Ubuntu) but not that rare.

I'd be interested to know how this can be, since nothing in the info it gave back looked especially unusual.

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jfb 4945 days ago
That you're running Ubuntu is 99% of the entropy. Nobody uses Ubuntu (for certain values of nobody). The fonts you have installed. The versions of the plugins you have installed. &c.

I've long wanted to build a WebKit based browser that simply lies in response to all of those evil questions. Add it to my backlog of Important Projects, I guess.

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jiggy2011 4945 days ago
But then a lot of websites wouldn't work properly because they are pushing IE specific CSS (or whatever) on you.

I haven't installed any weird versions of plugins, I assumed they would be tied to whatever chrome version I have.

And Ubuntu isn't rare enough for me to be the only person using it (especially on EFF).

Going to have to experiment with this a bit.

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bct 4945 days ago
> nothing in the info it gave back looked especially unusual.

It doesn't have to be unusual, it just has to vary slightly from machine to machine. It's the specific combination of those slight variations that's unusual.

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