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Anonymous on the web? Think again...

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    #11
    Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
    I'll be impressed when it can tell me my name.
    Allo Dave!

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      #12
      Originally posted by Churchill View Post
      Allo Dave!
      Alright Trig?
      Older and ...well, just older!!

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        #13
        Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
        That's what identified me. 100,000 or so tests is not really very many. I expect that once you'd tested every PC in the UK/Europe/World my identifying information would be pretty hard to tell from millions of others.
        Indeed. Fonts and plugins provide the most information. For example, I've got the new MS fonts that shipped with Vista installed on my Mac, which most people don't have.

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          #14
          Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
          Alright Trig?
          Well if you're hung like one, may as well be named after one...

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            #15
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            The "identifying information" it showed me was:
            • User Agent
            • HTTP_ACCEPT header
            • Browser plugins
            • Time zone
            • Screen size and colour depth
            • System fonts (gathered via a Java applet)
            • Are cookies enabled?
            • Limited "supercookie" test - in other words, checking support for HTML5 DOM localStorage, HTML5 DOM sessionStorage and IE userData.
            Noscript knocked most of those on the head...
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #16
              Originally posted by cojak View Post
              Noscript knocked most of those on the head...
              NoScript is the biggest giveaway of all...

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                #17
                Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                NoScript is the biggest giveaway of all...
                Ah well....
                "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                  Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 106,319 tested so far.

                  Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 16.7 bits of identifying information.
                  I got that 16.7 as well but with:

                  Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 111,680 tested so far.
                  I think that 16.7 is probably for every browser...
                  Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                    I think that 16.7 is probably for every browser...
                    Except mine, with 16.69

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                      #20
                      Mine's 11.01
                      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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