Fingerprint test, show how private you are

[CaffeineAddict]

It's time you prove your web browser is as good as it claims to be.

Site to test:

Cover Your Tracks

See how trackers view your browser

coveryourtracks.eff.org

Browser 1:

Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 566.77 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.15 bits of identifying information.

Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a non-unique fingerprint

Browser 2:

Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 1962.34 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 10.94 bits of identifying information.

Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Yes

Curious if your privacy is better than mine?

btw. I was left this option enabled:

 

[KGIII]

This has come up before, but not in a while. EFF is pretty awesome, really.

I won't even bother testing. I'm certain that I'm 1:1, entirely unique.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I'm certain that I'm 1:1, entirely unique.

Isn't lower value better? I'm slightly confused with these ratios.

 

[Condobloke]

Waterfox 6.6.10

 

[CaffeineAddict]

@Condobloke
Time to harden your browser.

 

[Thunderpants]

There are a few other sites for testing fingerprinting, such as:

Online Browser Fingerprint Detection Tool | Check User-Agent, Canvas & IP Leak - ToDetect

ToDetect is a professional-grade browser fingerprint detection tool that requires no installation. It provides real-time analysis of detailed User-Agent information (browser version, system, device, IP), making it ideal for anti-detection testing and anti-tracking checks.

www.todetect.net

What browser? My browser? Is my browser out of date?

What browser do I have? Find out my browser, check that my browser is up to date and what my settings are.

www.whatismybrowser.com

Inconsistent or incorrect results appear common with these tools. For example, my browser location is always misreported.

 

[osprey]

This has come up before, but not in a while. EFF is pretty awesome, really.

I won't even bother testing. I'm certain that I'm 1:1, entirely unique.

My browsers are also unique. I guess it's in part because of the combination of extensions on each browser. The following are some results:

waterfox
(with extensions: uBlockOrigin, Dark Reader, I still don't care about cookies)

Result:
"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 155277.5 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 17.24 bits of identifying information."


librewolf
(with extensions: uBlockOrigin, Dark Reader, I still don't care about cookies)

Result:
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 310,569 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 18.24 bits of identifying information."

firefox
(with extensions: uBlockOrigin, Dark Reader, I still don't care about cookies, TWP Translate Web Pages, Ad Blocker for Youtube)

Result:
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 310,590 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 18.24 bits of identifying information."

There are other browsers run here too, but I guess they will produce similar results so I haven't tested them.

Despite the uniqueness, I don't actually receive ads or have any trouble with the web sites that I access regularly. There's not anything that actually bothers me in my browser activity online. I guess there's profiles of my IP address held somewhere by some agencies, but since several people actually use this machine, it's going to be a profile that doesn't actually apply to a single individual. I don't however, regard my time online as "safe", but try and be careful, but very little has raised my suspicions lately that I can think of.

 

[Condobloke]

Despite the uniqueness, I don't actually receive ads or have any trouble with the web sites that I access regularly. There's not anything that actually bothers me in my browser activity online. I guess there's profiles of my IP address held somewhere by some agencies, but since several people actually use this machine, it's going to be a profile that doesn't actually apply to a single individual. I don't however, regard my time online as "safe", but try and be careful, but very little has raised my suspicions lately that I can think of.

^^^^^^^^....that.
The only cause for suspicion here, has been from ebay. Either being their usual incompetent selves or merely a screw up in the system. Sent me a blurb advising me to finish my listing for ram I was 'selling' ......no such listing exists.

I really do feel that hardening and tightening every little thing is akin to beating a dead horse.
The horse has already left the stable/earth. You may as well throw water into a strong wind that is blowing straight at you.

 

[KGIII]

Isn't lower value better? I'm slightly confused with these ratios.

That is low, it's one of one. Extremely unique, in other words.

 

[KGIII]

There's not anything that actually bothers me in my browser activity online.

Yup. I'm pretty easily identified.

This is true, even in the physical world. You could show up in the nearest village and use the information I've shared to get directions to my house. You'd just need to do some trivial social engineering, like pretending to be a long-lost friend and having incomplete directions to my house. The helpful people will give you the exact directions.

I do not live in fear, nor is fear a primary motivator for my actions.

Well, I'm in the US. I am pretty heavily armed.

Though, really, my stuff is almost always locked away in a special room dedicated to the hobby.

 

[Thunderpants]

This tool appears to generate a different 'combined unique fingerprint and identicon' every time Firefox is restarted so perhaps the 'unique' result only lasts per browser session. These tools are a bit confusing.

Bromite fingerprinting mitigations test

Some anti-fingerprinting mitigations tests for Bromite

www.bromite.org

 

[Condobloke]

I am pretty heavily armed.

My quasi baseball bat is reasonably close at most times.

It is actually the long handle from a mattock.....around 800mm long....timber.

 

[KGIII]

My quasi baseball bat is reasonably close at most times.

It is actually the long handle from a mattock.....around 800mm long....timber.
View attachment 31104

Whacking one another with sticks has been a human pastime for like 300,000 years!

 

[Condobloke]

So, I'm old fashioned.
Some traditions are worth keeping.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

This tool appears to generate a different 'combined unique fingerprint and identicon' every time Firefox is restarted so perhaps the 'unique' result only lasts per browser session. These tools are a bit confusing.

Every time you do the test you're added to database, so the uniqueness can't be same every time.
The best test is 1st time and only once.

That is low, it's one of one. Extremely unique, in other words.

I get it but there are 3 possible extremes with this test:
1. Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 310,569 tested in the past 45 days.
2. Only one in 1 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
3. Only one in 310,569 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

They can't all mean same - unique.
Where 1st point ratio is 0 : 1 I believe
And point 3 (1:310659) just means a very rare fingerprint, which then can be considered almost unique.

Therefore 1:1 ratio means everybody has same fingerprint as you, making you 100% unidentifiable, so the best possible result.

very little has raised my suspicions lately that I can think of.

This is exactly what the agencies know well, if we don't drive suspicion into users they'll relax and won't even think about us.
There's saying "money loves silence", we can say as well that data loves it too.

I really do feel that hardening and tightening every little thing is akin to beating a dead horse.

I don't give up that easily.
I believe privacy is possible.

Imagine web services giving up on their security, so many more servers would be hacked on daily basis.

 

[Trml]

Time to harden your browser.

My score is the same as @Condobloke , accounting for everyone from this thread testing in the meantime (see 308.177 count). Using Firefox with user.js defaults. While I do like the EFF test as a rule of thumb, I think they neglect updating it a little.

For example, my test shows javascript is disabled, when it clearly is (without extension limiting it). And most of the identifying bits here (13.65 of 18.23) result from identifying regular webGL from an Intel CPU (notebook). WebGL part:
Bits of identifying information: 13.65
One in x browsers have this value: 12843.67

 

[CaffeineAddict]

And most of the identifying bits here (13.65 of 18.23) result from identifying regular webGL from an Intel CPU (notebook). WebGL part:

I'll tell you guys the secret for browser privacy

Run your browser in VM, use extensions as you please (everything as usual), you don't need to disable anything in your browser prior the test and you'll get much better result.

The trick is that fingerprinting in VM is limited because your hardware is practically hidden from javascript code.

Added benefit to privacy is also security, a hacked VM can be safely replaced without affecting the host.
I use it for browsing only though because this is the biggest attack vector vs regular users.

 

[bob466]

I wonder how reliable this "test" is ?

Here's my results...using Firefox in Mint mate 22.3 VM with no add-ons...no VPN...no nothing...

Look what it says.

On another Forum someone claimed their VPN was leaking. They posted a link to a web site that said they downloaded all these torrents but they hadn't...one torrent was naughty girls get...

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I wonder how reliable this "test" is ?

Here's my results...

Most browsers out there that aren't chrome or edge and similar usually block trackers by default, firefox does as well.
This is what the first portion of the results is about, but you have to look the results under that about uniqueness.

In any case it says you have unique fingerprint so it's not really "strong" as titled, I guess this applies to trackers only.

 

[Vektor]

"Run your browser in VM"
Does it need an OS? If not that would be cool.

Vektor