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		saagarjha 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Achieving Great Privacy with Safari I don't really trust the EFF site. I'm not trying to be an annoying contrarian but as far as I can tell it always reports a unique result and nobody has explained to me yet why a freshly set up iPhone should look unique to them. Everyone talks about canvas fingerprinting or whatever but I mean it is literally the same GPU and screen size and font stack and colorspace as a million other iPhones. What are they getting? My time zone, maybe? IP? What do I actually do to reduce the number of bits?

uni_baconcat 10 months ago [–]

https://amiunique.org/ provides more detailed information about fingerprinting.

saagarjha 10 months ago | [–]

That site claims that the default user agent for the latest version of macOS buckets me into 0.01% of users. This seems very unlikely to me.

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