Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

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.

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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.

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