Post #1579131

2026-03-24 16:26 UTC

Then this may be happening only with certain distributions or operating systems. It is definitely happening for me, I checked it over and over. "You have visited once." I close Tor Browser, restart, come back to fingerprint.com. "You have visited twice." I also did try this with safer. I did multiple tests. This impacts at least some operating systems or distributions. It may not impact Qubes. I didn't test that, but I am sure it impacts at least some users.

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@Dust0741@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 16:39

How are you installing the browsers? Flatpak? AppImage?

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@ken@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-25 06:52

Are you keeping at default window size, or resizing? If latter, it is expected. This is a gotcha when using tiling window managers as they often force a window size that may give you off. TB should otherwise start with static fixed window size. Enabling "Letterboxing" feature can help alleviate this somewhat. On PG: Also been seeing weird vibes and some inexplicable moderation comms and actions when looking closer. Their "recommendations" and "guides" also raise eyebrows. _Something_ is very strange there.

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@JackbyDev@programming.dev 2026-03-25 10:28

This website says my device is less trustworthy because I'm using incognito and privacy focused settings. Fuck 'em.

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@CorvusCornix@piefed.social 2026-04-03 03:06

I know this post is a bit older at this point, but do you have any custom fonts installed? I could reliably reproduce my browser fingerprint as you described, even between Librewolf and Firefox with different configurations (including JavaScript disabled in Librewolf). A visit on one browser would increment the counter, and vice-versa. I had forgotten that, quite some time ago, I'd installed a font not packaged with my OS - I deleted it, made sure to clear out my site data, changed IPs, and finally got a shiny new fingerprint. Cross-referencing with EFF's coveryourtracks site, I also noticed that one metric that almost never changes for me is my audiocontext fingerprint, although I can thwart that by disabling JavaScript, but maybe that's contributing as well?

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