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> Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 11983.11 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Given the way iOS works, does this mean only one in about 12k users are on iOS 14.6 using a iPhone 12 (my configuration). That seems to be what the fingerprint boils down to?

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Time zone, your phones memory, screen size (eg, 12 Max, Mini, otherwise), what browser you accessed it with (more using Safari on iOS than Chrome).

Time zone is good point. Just tested a iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 and results were identical (despite having different amounts of memory).

It uses a lot more advanced techniques too, like rendering text and shapes in a hidden canvas + webgl, which will render slightly different between hardware, drivers, etc. Was also surprised to see that my HTTP_ACCEPT header was unique in 1 of nearly 5,000 devices, considering I am on a fresh (literally days old) MacOS install.

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