Well then I am glad that it got most of it wrong. I don't even put thaat much emphasis on fingerprinting countermeasures. Apparently, using Firefox in a private tab is enough.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Your device carries these typefaces, of the seventeen commonly probed by fingerprinting checks. The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters
What the fuck why is my browser telling random websites what fonts I have installed? Shouldn't that be completely irrelevant to everyone except me and my particular device?
It should be, yes. But browsers like Chrome are literally made by the company that stands to profit from fingerprinting you, so they're always going to be made to make it easy to do just that. Firefox at least has “resist fingerprinting” option which apparently can limit font visibility to only base system fonts rather than fonts you installed and language-pack fonts. LibreWolf has this on out of the box.
Thats part of how you’re fingerprinted.
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I found it interesting that it knows my battery level and current orientation of the phone.
I can understand the latter since it might want to render differently, but why does it need to know the battery level?
So that Uber will charge you a higher rate when the battery is low
I don't even know it it's /s anymore
certainly how making your battery level available to apps is getting used I'm sure
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It shows me the time for Reykjavik after identifying the city and country correctly.
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.
Opend it in Tor Browser inside a Whonix dispVM inside Qubes OS it got nothing on me
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which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display
lolno
Both recent and high end are rather flexable terms, open wide to interpretation.
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Welp, my user agent switcher is successfully purporting to be a different operating system.