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Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous (hackaday.com)

submitted 7 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quite far from the truth, as interacting with internet services like websites leaves a significant fingerprint. In a study by [RTINGS.com] this browser fingerprinting was investigated in detail, showing just how easy it is to uniquely identify a visitor across the 83 laptops used in the study.

As summarized in the related video (also embedded below), the start of the study involved the Am I Unique? website which provides you with an overview of your browser fingerprint. With over 4.5 million fingerprints in their database as of writing, even using Edge on Windows 10 marks you as unique, which is telling.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 35 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

The only real advantage you gain is being able to watch things outside your region. Without lots of work, you’re pretty easily traceable on the modern internet.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago

Not at all.

Do anything where you log in under one location with vanilla FF. Do everything else with 2 or more browsers under 20 other locations.

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