Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 14 hours agoRandomized = 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”.
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
…no
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 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).
artyom@piefed.social 6 hours ago
I mean “unique” can be static. “Randomized” means it’s constantly changing.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 hours ago
Sorry but that’s totally wrong.
The entire point is that if it’s unique it can be considered a fingerprint — in fact the entire reason it’s called “fingerprint” is that in theory it’s unique like a real fingerprint.
If it’s common then it’s unreliable as a fingerprint because it’s no longer unique.