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Comment by axegon_ | Hacker News Reader

That's hardly surprising. I mean browsers hand out willingly plenty of information that could be used for pretty accurate identifications. Just scrolling through my scores on amiunique[1], many of the parameters put me in the 0.01% category.

[1] https://amiunique.org/fp

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A lot of these make no sense at all.

Using Mac OSX stock audio input and output devices is already supposedly "unique".

Having an Azerty keyboard supposedly puts you in the 0,04% category even though all French speakers have the same setting which means that 0,04% already represents +70M users. So far from "unique".

Presumably they ignore correlated values. Like a French IP, a French localevnd AZERTY are all very correlated.

If you want to be less unique on amiunique.org/fp

1. Visit the site 2. Delete your browser cookies 3. Refresh 4. Repeat the steps until you're less unique

Or you know, just block JS.

Congratulations, you just broke 90% of the modern web. Might as well go directly to Gopher.

Congratualations on never actually bothering to block JS and find out - you know, facts. From actually doing so over many years, and so from actual experience I'd say completely non-functinal sites are about 25%.

I’d put the number quite a bit lower than that, probably comfortably under 10% of sites I interact with, though the trend is definitely upwards, drastically so among interactive things (which are probably worse than 50% broken these days).

A bit of selective whitelisting with umatrix keeps everything functional while massively helping with privacy.