[brityank]

Weird.

Here's an easier way of tracking someone - the only way to defeat it is through an anonymizer portal:

Here's what I got:

Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 5,628 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.46 bits of identifying information.

[LibWhacker]

Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 5,628 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Okay, that's useful information, thx. So what they are saying is that, perhaps, 400 to 600 computers share your fingerprint. A lot better than me!

[IAMIUBU]

“Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.46 bits of identifying information.”

OK

So how do I go about becoming a 12 bitter instead of a 20 bitter?

Seriously, not trying to be funny.

[Texas Fossil]

Most of that information is correct, but I doubt this one:

“Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 5,628 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.”

I am running Xubuntu Linux and Firefox browser, but I tried the same view from an old Redhat Linux machine with Galeon Browser (Mozilla/Netscape derivative) and got exactly the same statement.

[Texas Fossil]

Lets rethink that, here is what it said for my old machine.

Browser Identity

Browser Characteristic	bits of identifying information	one in x browsers have this value	value
User Agent	20.6+	1594759	Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5	(X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

[Texas Fossil]

Here is what it said about my newer Linux machine:

Browser Identity

Browser Characteristic	bits of identifying information	one in x browsers have this value	value
User Agent	10.24	1207.64	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

[Texas Fossil]

Here is what the site says using Lynx text browser on the old Linux machine:

Panopticlick -- How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

   Your  browser  fingerprint  appears  to  be unique among the 1,596,279
   tested so far.

   Currently,  we  estimate  that  your  browser  has  a fingerprint that
   conveys at least 20.61 bits of identifying information.

   The  measurements  we used to obtain this result are listed below. You
   can  read  more  about  our methodology, statistical results, and some
   defenses against fingerprinting in this article.

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   Browser Characteristic bits of identifying information one in x
   browsers have this value value
   User Agent

                                   20.61+

                                  1596279

   Lynx/2.8.5dev.7 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
   HTTP_ACCEPT Headers