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There's a mis-understanding of at least the Graphics part. For example WebGPU features. It looks like lots of info https://webgpureport.org/ https://webgpurepo

There's a mis-understanding of at least the Graphics part. For example WebGPU features. It looks like lots of info https://webgpureport.org/ https://webgpureport.org/ But, they are bucketed https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#privacy-considerations It's not zero pieces of info but it's also not close to as bad as it looks. Effectively, everyone who has, say an NVidia GPU, will likely have the same list of features and limits. As a more general example: The number is just a flat out wrong > Unique to 1 in 2,147,483,648+ devices. No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone. In general, The only things different between 2 iPhones of the same model are time-zone, laguange setting, and font size. Please STOP EXAGGERATING!

jedberg 10mo ago
> No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone. Your IP address, ASN, and location make this not true.
- greggman65 10mo ago
  Those have nothing to do with "what the browser exposes". They are exposed regardless of what you use to connect.
  - jedberg 10mo ago
    But the browser knows them too and the site can get you to reveal it, even behind a vpn.
dror 10mo ago
Beyond the obvious IP address difference, there are other way to fingerprint you, see https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ which will actually provide details about how you're a special snowflake, tracked by advertisers.
- greggman65 10mo ago
  that site is just as bad at giving probably false numbers that are several orders of magnitude off
garbagewoman 10mo ago
You’re quite welcome to not believe what everyone is telling you.

jedberg 10mo ago

> No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone. Your IP address, ASN, and location make this not true.

greggman65 10mo ago
Those have nothing to do with "what the browser exposes". They are exposed regardless of what you use to connect.
- jedberg 10mo ago
  But the browser knows them too and the site can get you to reveal it, even behind a vpn.

dror 10mo ago

Beyond the obvious IP address difference, there are other way to fingerprint you, see https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ which will actually provide details about how you're a special snowflake, tracked by advertisers.

greggman65 10mo ago
that site is just as bad at giving probably false numbers that are several orders of magnitude off

garbagewoman 10mo ago

You’re quite welcome to not believe what everyone is telling you.