What score does your browser(s) get?
I’ll start: I got:
one in ~25000 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours
CreepJS is much better (and scarier) at fingerprinting you than EFF. I’ve not managed to completely fool it yet but I’ve got my score down to 0% trust, meaning the fingerprint it generates is pretty useless. I suspect the only way to totally fool it (by which I mean spoof my devices) would be to turn JS off completely.
On Safari 17 every time I visit the site it claims it’s my first visit, despite a trust score of 57%. Not sure if I’m interpreting the results wrong or ITP is just doing its job.
I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think creep stores anything on its github incarnation so it’ll always look like it’s your first visit.
iOS 17 Safari (especially with enhanced fingerprint protection on) is really good at fingerprint protection. It rotates a few data points like canvas ID so that it makes you look like a new fingerprint each time.
Fingerprint analyzers can find out lots about your fingerprint that way, but if your fingerprint keeps changing, it becomes difficult to identify you. Unique fingerprints don’t mean anything if your fingerprint keeps changing.
That’s what I was kind of thinking/hoping based on the results, but I wasn’t sure if I was understanding it right. Thanks for elaborating!
Imagine I keep a log of everyone I encounter… their race, hair colour, eye colour, glasses shape, accent, gender, fingernail length, ear lobe shape, everything. I would probably encounter the same people every so often, and I would be able to recognize them from my log.
Now imagine that one of them started dying their hair and putting in coloured contact lenses, and they changed it up every day. I may be able to collect all of the details about them. They’re very unique. But… I couldn’t match them against anyone in my log, even though I’ve seen them multiple times.
Having a unique browser fingerprint is perfectly fine if it constantly changes. They can collect all of those details about you, but if you keep changing key details, they won’t be able to recognize you.
Do you have js enabled?
Trying to figure out how to accomplish this - doesn’t even work on tor
Yea, I’m just using the browser on my phone, with Private Relay and intelligent tracking prevention on for all websites. I’ve visited it a bunch of times now and I’ve gotten it to count consecutive visits a few times, but if I just wait a little while and refresh it goes back to 1 and the fuzzy fingerprint is wildly different
Wow yea this seems really good. And scary. Too bad it doesn’t seem to work with mullvad browser
I get 0% on CreepJS with default DDG browser set to “strict”, with a crowd blending score of 27%.
I get 40.7% with Mull + adblocker and 66.5% with FF + adblocker
“Your browser has a unique fingerprint”…well that isn’t good…
Please also consider things like canvas spoofing. It will create a unique fingerprint that is different every time.
I’m not sure how to read this report. It says my browser is unique and random with strong protections.
I got “unique among the 185,973 tested in the past 45 days”
Edit: this is using Firefox Android Nightly with UBlock + Canvas Blocker
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 4330.4 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.08 bits of identifying information.
Using Mull with NoScript through Mullvad
Same here Edit: except unique in 186,012 tests
Similar. Using Mull, uBlock, pi-hole, and ghostery. I should try with my VPN on.
More of my stats:
Fennec (privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 23301.0
Fennec private tab (privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 20712.44
Firefox hardened (arkenfox + privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 37281.6
Firefox hardened private tab(arkenfox + privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 31069.5
Mullvan browser (dafaults with unlock): 1 in 147.48
There is also fingerprint.com, which I tend to trust more since it’s a company that literally sells fingerprinting tech to other companies.
It managed to identify me while using the Tor browser on “Safer” (doesn’t work on “Safest” due to JS). Edit: this is likely due to an issue with my install, and not the browser itself.
Am I looking for a high number or a low number?
Looks like Chrome randomized my fingerprint but Firefox doesn’t. Does that mean I should be using chrome instead of FF?
Spoof your user-agent in FF
That’s very easy to catch. You stand out much, much more as a spoofing firefox user than as a firefox user.
I need this but Firefox mobile doesn’t have that option yet
Well Im sure there is an addon to do that
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Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 93387.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.51 bits of identifying information.
But also
Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint
I don’t get it
Almost no browser has the same fingerprint as yours, which makes it nearly unique.
0 because I have scripts disabled.
Only one in 706.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as
yoursmine.Is that bad? Or is this like golf.
The lower the number the better. That’s pretty decent.
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Not necessarily bad, the lower the number the harder it is to fingerprint you. In other words, your browser stands out much less and is less noticeable from the masses than the OPs browser.
Generally the more security/privacy tweaks and add-ons you apply to your browser the more secure it gets, but you tend to stand out from the masses more because of the changes, resulting in the 1 in 4,000 type stat. It becomes easier to differentiate your traffic from others.
Whether anonymity or security is more desirable depends on your threat model.
Edit: “Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 186,867 tested in the past 45 days.” Evidently I stand out quite a bit 😂
I’ve an unique fingerprint, but different fp results in every test run, with mostly wrong sys specs, only it shows correct my country, nothing else. Same in Browserleaks.
On LibreWolf, which I use to surf daily, I got one in 180k+.
Afterwards, I tried Tor Browser -which is honestly almost never used- and this was a lot better at one in 6k+. Though this was only in “Safer” mode, I tried testing it on “Safest” afterwards, but an update screwed it up and I somehow couldn’t get it back to its standard opening size.
Interestingly, my best result I got once again on LibreWolf. This time, I changed two things:
- Enable letterboxing
- Disable Javascript entirely through uBlock Origin
This resulted in a one in 800+. I am interested to know how Mullvad browser users fare on Mullvad VPN.
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Many parts of your browser’s fingerprint which can be randomized are well known to tracking companies, so your strategy isn’t perfect.
Your Mullvad result seems too high btw, though I don’t have access to my computer right now to compare.
I see. I too use similar settings on Librewolf: should try it.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 187,041 tested in the past 45 days.
Same here. Is there a way to spoof a more generic fingerprint or something?
It seems that my screen resolution is the problem. Brave beats Firefox based browsers because it spoofs the screen resolution
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Doesn’t work with Javascript blocked.
