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		samename on Nov 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cover Your Tracks Fellow iPhone X user here. Unfortunately, it seems because of the User Agent and hash of WebGL Fingerprint, our phones have unique fingerprints: > Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 71131.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours. > Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 16.12 bits of identifying information.

diebeforei485 on Nov 21, 2020 [–]

User Agent is the same for everyone on your iOS version, correct?

I don't fully understand the WebGL fingerprinting stuff- why is it different on the same device model?

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