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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.
My Mum always said I was unique.
Now I have proof!
Just being in Australia, and setting the timezone correctly gets you to below 0.6%
😒
The percentage of, normally, privacy-aware people
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.
Somehow safari on an iPhone is also unique.
EFF updated their site since last check months ago, seeming to confirm theory
Nice (& I’m unique again on AmIUnique)
Check next week or in a new private tab now, prob be unique then too—think Apple’s fuzzing/reporting some noise/junk data for us.
Canvas:
& WebGL:
gotta be noisy, here’s hoping!
Look at my epic WebGL render:
How exactly is this rendering artifact generated?
dang, even with vanadium on graphene i am very uniquely identified. I suppose it can’t be helped these days.
I am a unique signiture but it also got my OS wrong and couldn’t get my time zone
Y’all I think I won privacy
TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.
Yes and it will appear unique every time because every visit is using a different combination.
You’ll be unique be less trackable.
I like clickclickclick.click
Is there no add on, for Firefox, for example, to stop or confuse fingerprinting?
Any suggestions?
For Android.
that’s pretty comprehensive, and similarity ratios show how easy it is to create a unique fingerprint for somebody if you hash a few of these metrics together for example.
Attribute number 1 already says 0%. We’re done here.
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.
I am unique cause I set language to EN-GB :D I guess their dataset is us centric
Same here with en-au, and my fucking timezone.
Yay, I’m completely unique! I won!
Wait a minute
Scary
Site feels very LLM generated - in particular the writing just feels off
I scrolled “103% of the way down”
Could you explain why it would be in any way relevant if that was the case?
I’m interested in the people that make the stuff I consume. When I read something or enjoy a piece of art, much of the enjoyment is imagining why the artist made the decisions they did. If it was made by AI, the answer is much less interesting.
This is not a piece of art, it’s a piece of educational material showing people what information websites collect about them. But it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
Would you feel differently about, say a book you read and somewhat enjoyed if you later learned it was written by a fascist? It sure would make a difference to me. Have you never consumed any sort of media that you later felt was tainted by who created it, or used a product that you later decided not to use again after learning how it was produced? There’s even a colloquialism referring to this very thing, about “knowing how the sausage is made.”
Sure, because it would be tainted by another individual with goals and intentions different from my own. Being upset that something was made using a particular tool is quite different from that. Also, do you get upset looking at a beautiful sunset just because no human designed it intentionally?
I was taking the statement about what you found “fascinating” in isolation because it was phrased as such. You were surprised that the other commenter could find enjoyment in “something” not knowing how it was produced then feel less enjoyment after learning more. That is a silly thing to be “fascinated” by because it is something that the vast majority of us are keenly familiar with. But because that commenter has qualms about AI which you don’t, you suddenly can’t understand how later information about something can alter one’s enjoyment of it? It’s an absurd thing to say. As is your sunset question. I don’t get upset looking at most AI slop either, but I absolutely do place it in a different category than either a natural phenomenon or something I know was made by human expression and if you can’t understand or recognize that difference, I don’t know that anything I could say could help you with that.
Last I checked, LLMs have no will or agency of their own. Literally everything they produce is an artifact of a human expressing themselves. The argument is regarding how much effort a human is expected to put in and what tools they use to express themselves. Apparently, when a certain arbitrary threshold is reached, then it’s no longer human responsible for producing something.
If intelligently designed sunsets were an option, I’d probably like those more. You raise a good point, we might just like all these “natural beauties” because we haven’t anything else.
Or perhaps the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We are able to appreciate things that look interesting without them having been designed, and they can trigger emotions and ideas within our own minds that are meaningful to us. Even with human created artifacts, we do not know what the artist was thinking vast majority of the time, or what they were actually trying to convey. We interpret the work using our own thoughts and experience. So, even with the most meticulously human generated art, it is the viewer projecting their own meaning onto it.
The enjoyment includes the feeling of reaching out to another person’s mind. Finding out there is no mind is like expecting stairs where there are none and stepping into emptiness.
That’s just complete misunderstanding of how people use these tools. The intention still comes from somebody’s mind. Somebody had an idea and they used the tool to execute it.
They’re the client, not the artist. There is no artist and no artist’s mind to connect to.
In the same way a photographer is a client of the camera.
because if you lack the ability to discern whether or not something is actual useful feedback or hallucinated AI garbage then it’s worthless
“knowing” something wrong is arguably worse than not knowing anything at all
Oh boy, if you think humans are never wrong and trust human generated content implicitly, prepare to be surprised.
rank condescension aside
if you are somehow incapable of realizing that leaning on AI only exacerbates the problem you’re talking about then idk what to tell you
The point here is that we already lived in a world where you can’t just take things on faith. The AI changes fuck all about that.
AI generated is just a stand in for hollow & over-dramatized here. Probably I could enjoy AI generated content if it wasn’t shit. The claims on the site reminiscent of 14y/o skids trying to scare each other: “uhhh I got your IP I will hack you now!1!1”, except now you have access to some chatbot subscription to make it sound like it’s a big deal.
So, just say that. You think site is hollow and over dramaticized.
It is a big deal how much the browser shares about you without people realizing. No one thinks about these things.
If you use a VPN on Spain you might think you’re safe but then your timezone is saying you’re in Ireland. You thought you were fooling them buy you really aren’t. You can’t outsmart fingerprint and I wish people made a bigger deal about this so actual solutions get implemented.
Sites like these raise awareness which is quite important.
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
I mean that’s fine, but plenty of things in our modern life are mass produced, and utilitarian. Everything doesn’t need to be art. For example, I don’t need my toothbrush to be crafted by an artisan, nor do I care if a website that shows stats collected by the browser was artisanally coded or not.
I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:
Art is a matter of perspective.
Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.
Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.
What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.
You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…
That’s just a complete straw man that stems from having utter lack of understanding how people actually use LLMs. Here’s one example for you from Terence Tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.
These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.
And the rest of us are just tired of people braying about AI in every single thread. People just have to learn how to deal with their personal issues without spamming about their feelings everywhere. I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point. These tantrums add absolutely nothing to any discussion, and they’re just noise.
“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”
I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point.
Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.
Not really, people are just tired of your spam.
Very well done site!
I prefer https://www.deviceinfo.me/
iOS and the browser I use block a lot of stuff from being visible, interesting!
I get a blank page?
Interesting that this one doesn’t detect my battery (says it’s blocked) but the one OP posted can see it
It seems to be based on how the website is interpreting the browser. I got mine correct but with the battery mentions Firefox and a removed API. I wasn’t using Firefox.
So a prettier and minimal version of https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ ?
This is a much more detailed, less “fear mongering AI” version of the other website. Thanks for sharing!
Kinda like they feed Cover Your Tracks to an LLM’s template so you can experience the data in narrative form
(No LLM used when you visit the site, just when they built it, is what I’m guessing here)
Why did it get my GPU wrong?
AI generated code will just substitute bullshit if it can’t get you the right answer
My jaw dropped when I read the what angle my device is being held at, how many times I scrolled and tapped, what my position is!!!
How is this even legal?!
I always thought they just took my location, my device name etc. I had no idea it’s this deep.
Well. That’s horrifying. Thanks, I guess.
central europe, maybe its due to architecture the isp has wifi access points around the city and people connect to them
back when it was starting there wasnt even isolation between clients, we used to send random shit to printers on the network as kids
fingerprint.com is an actual tracking company, while the front page doesn’t show what it knows it shows weather it has seen you before.
You can setup browsers to randomize fingerprints (tor does this automatically) so while your browser fingerprint is almost always unique you can see if it changes enough so it doesn’t recognise you across accesses.
all trackers hate this one trick
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
Unironically a solid way to block a lot of tracking. Although they can still fingerprint you I think.
Nothing makes you more unique than being one of the few people who disable java script
Better a known locked door than inviting them into your home
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.
I like that they covered all the possibilities for the do not track flag, as I saw it as useless from the very start, as by then I realized the honour system didn’t mean shit and it would just be another piece of data.
I definitely have misleading information on there, which is great, but I probably need more.
Does it matter for fingerprinting if the information is misleading? Unless it’s changing dynamically I guess it’s still helps in identifying a user
Yeah, I think there are two problems. One issue is that they profile users both for ads and manipulative algorithmic content, and I’d like them to profile me incorrectly in most cases (except like they are less likely to try to sell people on linux things, that’s a great thing I’d like to keep in the profile). The other issue is that they follow individual users using this fingerprinting, again this can be used both to sell things and to manipulate, but it’s a tad creepier since it tracks how you’re unique even compared to people superficially similar to you.
Ideally, I’d like some extension where I can look at values and either keep them, set them, or randomize them.
