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I'd suspected that having JS completely disabled would make my fingerprint more distinct, since presumably few people have it disabled. However, on visiting the page with JS enabled I received a 100% unique fingerprint. Any one of the following identifies me uniquely: WebGL Renderer, List of fonts (JS), Media devices. Then there is a long list of properties which can be sniffed with JavaScript that identify me with >99.9% accuracy. When I disable JS, there are 108 browsers with the exact same fingerprint as mine.

That prompts me to reconsider my policy of blocking JS. Until now, I've been blocking only third-party JS. Now I am considering blocking all JS by default.

parent abjKT26nO8 6 years ago

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