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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.
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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.

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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.
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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

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