Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous

• hietsu@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Randomized = unique, unless it is done ”smartly” by setting some very very common combo. Or unless it randomizes for every page load (which I recon would mess up many site functions, window width/height for example). And if there is not that many users having this on you shine like a beacon again as ”that randomizer guy”.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Randomized = unique

    …no

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean it’s somewhere between what both of you are saying. I imagine “randomized” means a random common “fingerprint” (with parameters like user agent, language, etc) rather than just a unique set of randomized parameters (say, time zone in US but language set to Farsi which would be unique to an extent).

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean “unique” can be static. “Randomized” means it’s constantly changing.

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