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Fli
09-27-2024, 04:30 PM
I am concerned about my privacy online and wanting to minimize tracking/reducing my fingerprint, I have disabled a WebGL.

BEFORE

1) at https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

1173

"unique among the 2885811 fingerprints"
test2: 2885867

2) at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org



Hash of WebGL fingerprint
randomized by first party domain
Bits of identifying information: 1.75
One in x browsers have this value: 3.36

WebGL Vendor & Renderer
Bits of identifying information: 7.21
One in x browsers have this value: 147.76

"unique among the 190,317 tested in the past 45 days."
test2: unique among the 190,416 tested in the past 45 days

CHANGE

According to https://ipleak.com/articles/what-is-webgl-and-how-to-disable Firefox steps are:


Open the browser settings page. To do this, type in the address bar: about:config

In the search box, type in: webgl

Find line “webgl.disabled”. It has the “false” value. It is necessary to change it to “true”. To do this simply click twice on this line.


AFTER

1) at https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

1174


unique among the 2885849 fingerprints (just a few tens of more)
test2: 2885867

2) at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org


Hash of WebGL fingerprint
d928a8c2420ac1b95e719f20d5d93341
Bits of identifying information: 3.14
One in x browsers have this value: 8.83

WebGL Vendor & Renderer
TypeError: e is null
Bits of identifying information: 3.11
One in x browsers have this value: 8.62
(that is improvement from 147.76 to 8.62)

"unique among the 190,399 tested in the past 45 days"
test2: 190,417