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Re:Facebook by mateo411 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @04:05PM (#6816459)
What unique aspects of your browser? The User-Agent header will tell you the kind of browser you have. However, it's unlikely that you are using a browser that's very unique.

They can use cookies to identify you. But you have to keep going back to their website.

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Re:Facebook by grecy on Thursday November 28, 2013 @04:06PM (#6816466)
I'm unique among the 3.6 million tested so far.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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Re:Facebook by panacea on Thursday November 28, 2013 @04:26PM (#6816554)
I love fonts, and yet, they appear to also be my digital fingerprint.
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Re:Facebook by eps on Friday November 29, 2013 @01:23AM (#6818149)
You know, I've been to this site several times, but noticed just now that it says "1 in 27588" about plugins of *stock iPad browser". This seems to be off, way off.
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Re:Facebook by MrBra on Friday November 29, 2013 @04:19AM (#6818568)
Yes but that still makes your browser unique, isn't it?
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Re:Facebook by acjohnson55 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @11:43PM (#6817923)
Hmm. It seems like my plugins give me away.
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Re:Facebook by sebkomianos on Thursday November 28, 2013 @07:49PM (#6817321)
This is scary.
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Re:Facebook by m4x on Friday November 29, 2013 @01:39PM (#6820477)
You don't have to go back to their website very often; your browsing is tracked every time you visit a page that has a 'Like' button. And as others have noted many people's browsers already have a unique fingerprint even while you are logged out of Facebook
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