~~Quite fear mongering and not very educative. Throws around a lot of terms whose meanings are not explained, nor are there links to further descriptions. This doesn't help people who need to know about this stuff. If you already know about this stuff, it doesn't really add any value.~~
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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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.
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
Thanks for sharing, I was already using a decent anti-fingerprinting browser (Fennec) but the fact that it gave away my timezone made me research a bit more and I'm now on IronFox, which has a toggle to spoof it, and reports a fake screen resolution. Great! I'm now unique on coveryourtracks though
Wildly inaccurate for me.
It already got my location very wrong.
Onion Browser with Orbot set to gold - site can’t see shit. So that works!