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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.

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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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