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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.




I'm unique among the 3.6 million tested so far.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/


I love fonts, and yet, they appear to also be my digital fingerprint.


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.


Yes but that still makes your browser unique, isn't it?


Hmm. It seems like my plugins give me away.


This is scary.


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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