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Comment by Aurornis

> One tanh call on the right input is a per-OS signature. Claim macOS, return Linux math bits, and you have contradicted your own User-Agent.

They (or rather the LLM that wrote this) missed that this is possibly fingerprintable to browser version range, which is slightly more interesting. Most users aren't spoofing their user agent headers to be a different operating system. Most fingerprinting solutions aren't trying to infer your operating system, they only care about semi-unique things that show up.

It's an interesting finding. I wish they had taken some time to have a real person write it up. This is too heavily LLM written to ignore.

parent Aurornis 3 months ago

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