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coffeecoders 5 days ago

Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with ways to reduce my browser fingerprint and exploring techniques to anonymize fingerprint data.

So I built this.

This is kind of like a lighter, more thorough version of CreepJS but entirely client side. I don’t maintain massive lists of time zones or do server-side comparisons to calculate uniqueness. Instead, it automatically surfaces everything a browser exposes, explaining each item in detail.

locknitpicker 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

Hi, thank you for going through the trouble of putting this together. This sort of service is invaluable as it allows us clueless people to beindful about something that negatively impacts our life.

Here's a suggestion: it's important to show us that our browser footprint allows us to be positively identified, but it only alerts us to a problem. It would be very useful if the site also provided some tips to improve anonymity, particularly if it's low-effort changes such as tweaking a couple of config changes.