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It's unfortunate that the pbtest.org tool links out to a service with an expired cert.

Alternative:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,020 tested in the past 45 days.

Damn how is this possible when I'm using a stock iPhone? I look at the characteristics and apart from timezone and language, how can they tell the same model iPhone apart?

Have you looked at the detailed breakdown that they give you?

It Tells me it’s unique despite we visit two weeks ago.

TIL about Web Audio, an API that allows any web page to find out about the user's sound setup (e.g. channel count and some kind of transfer function of the audio subsystem?) despite there being no legitimate purpose for that.

Is it really a surprise it gets implemented when all browser development outside of Webkit is financed by Google Ads revenue?

certs are not necessary, they are a tradeoff

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