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Comment by manaskarekar | Hacker News Reader

I'm aware of that link and here's my result in Chrome on Incognito.

  Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 1,172,808 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

  Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 20.16 bits of identifying information.

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Chrome without incognito: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,347,127 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.16 bits of identifying information.

I changed my user agent string & managed to get down to 15.99 bits of information (one in 65,161). Curious if anyone did better.

Would you care to go into detail about what you changed? Wouldn't changing too much make a user agent stand out?

Now I come to think about it, changing the GB to US in my user agent would probably make it less unique.

Then you'd be a British IP with a US user agent, which is probably a ton of bits. I just used User Agent Switcher & changed it to firefox 5.0 under XP.

10.9 bits, 1 in 1900 some odd.

Running Firefox with no-script/ad-block/request policy + UA string set to IE 8. Sites I enable scripting on will surely get more info.

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