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

submitted 1 month ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/35134668

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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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Just a waste of money, why I have never paid for one. My main browser is also Firefox focus on my phone so everything is trashed when I close it. Still not a perfect system though. My phone information and IP also give away a good amount of detail.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Oh no who would have thought.