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Wow! I am quite surprised. I use a Macbook running Snow Leopard, fully up-to-date software, with Safari. I don't (yet) have any after market fonts installed. And yet "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 47,390 tested so far." That is creepy.

Who is using this type of profiling as an alternative to cookies and other techniques? I would love to see some examples.

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Apparently I have a unique browser fingerprint as well. With so many different plugin and font combinations, I think that there are bound to be quite a few uniques.

Kind of terrifying, really.

Mine is unique too. Only 7 other people at the time of my test had the same plugin profile, and nobody had the same exact fonts (only thing I've knowingly added are MS fonts and ProggyCleanTTSZ).

Heh, I have an experimental NPAPI plugin that I wrote myself, so my plugin profile isn't shared by anyone else.

Creepy that sites can query this info so easily, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

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