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Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by nanis on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:44PM (#27148428)
Curious:

> We have generated your identifier based on 1 applications you have installed.

    Skype
Then it told me I am ninety-something percent unique...

I find that odd because pretty much every Windows machine has Skype.

Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by SavannahJS on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:47PM (#27148457)
(I work at FingerprintJS)

You are likely relatively unique because you only have Skype installed, whereas a lot of visitors will have more applications out of the list. Someone who has no applications on the list installed may be even more unique, for example.

Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by inetknght on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:02PM (#27148578)
> Someone who has no applications on the list installed may be even more unique, for example.

I ran it in a VM with Firefox and nothing else installed. It correctly detected nothing and stated:

> This is your identifier. It was seen 273 times among 3830 tests so far. > That means it is 92.87% unique.

Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by tinus_hn on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:59PM (#27148551)
You also have none of the other tested applications; I presume most of them have Word.
Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by nanis on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:44PM (#27148921)
> You also have none of the other tested applications; I presume most of them have Word.

What makes you assume I do not have Office installed? Instead of, say, considering the possibility that the fingerprinting may not be that good.

Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by tinus_hn on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:42AM (#27151798)
The main clue is that you are not noting that it is misdetecting anything, just that you think what it is that it is detecting is not very special.
Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Fi... by nanis on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:44PM (#27161193)
I noted that it only detected Skype and nothing else and that app is installed on all Windows machines these days.

Tried again, same deal:

> That means it is 96.35% unique