From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:04:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120126160444.GA826@eisen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiDCZGeWX+ykx6_raD2AO_RkKHKX6535q+sVtY_zi+Of0w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> >>
> >> My results from work:
> >>
> >> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so far.
> >>
> >> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
> >> conveys at least 20.89 bits of identifying information.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Funny, I get exactly the same thing except add one to the large number.
> > I guess you tested before I did. How does one avoid this but still
> > have sites work?
>
> Well, I just went to the same site using a Chrome 'incognito' browser,
> and got this:
>
> Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 969,560
> browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
>
> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
> conveys 19.89 bits of identifying information.
I get almost the same numbers with just using NoScript and Flashblock. (And
the above result when I allow the Java applet and JavaScript).
This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt myself
when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of the
web relies on JS. I then say that privacy and comfort is more important to me
than having to allow JS on a site from time to time. (Even though some sites
obviously don't work without it, such as video portals, most of them still do,
albeit some gt a borked layout from it).
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 7:16 [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes Dale
2012-01-26 8:47 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-26 8:48 ` Michael Mathurin
2012-01-26 10:07 ` Mick
2012-01-26 11:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 12:56 ` Mick
2012-01-26 13:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 14:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 14:10 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 14:16 ` Dale
2012-01-26 14:34 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 16:04 ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2012-01-26 16:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-27 0:38 ` William Kenworthy
2012-01-27 1:49 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-27 8:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 16:20 ` Mick
2012-01-26 18:36 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-26 16:12 ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 16:18 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 16:18 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 16:24 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-27 6:41 ` Graham Murray
2012-01-27 14:53 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 20:45 ` Daniel da Veiga
2012-01-26 15:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 15:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 14:12 ` Mick
2012-01-26 15:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 21:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-27 0:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-27 12:21 ` Mick
2012-01-27 12:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-27 12:59 ` Mick
2012-01-27 13:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-27 13:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-26 21:47 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 23:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 18:09 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-26 19:30 ` Mick
2012-01-26 19:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 20:06 ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 20:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 8:58 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-26 12:36 ` Timo Briddigkeit
2012-01-26 13:07 ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 13:59 ` Dale
2012-01-26 15:22 ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 15:28 ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 16:08 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-27 0:08 ` Dale
2012-01-26 16:38 ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 17:11 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2012-01-26 17:35 ` Mick
2012-01-26 17:38 ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-27 6:57 ` Dale
2012-01-27 18:49 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-27 14:48 ` v_2e
2012-01-27 16:14 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-08 8:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-08 15:46 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-08 15:53 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-08 17:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-08 18:28 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 14:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-29 19:12 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:47 ` Mick
2012-01-29 23:57 ` Chris Walters
2012-02-08 8:01 ` Dale
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