Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

seems like brave works well and isn't getting correctly fingerprinted

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.

I tried various browsers, even the Tor browser, but it keeps showing 'Unique to 1 in 17.179.869.184+ devices'?

> Doesn't even load with JS

> Impossible to "expose"

The perks of disabling JS on every site!

EFF has a similar tool: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

No idea how representative either tool is.

What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.

ERROR> https://neberej.github.io/exposedbydefault/assets/index-3936...: Uncaught ReferenceError: speechSynthesis is not defined

I get a new fingerprint id everytime I refresh the page (firefox, linux) -- so that might be sampling a tiny bit too much. audio and canvas fingerprint are constant though so it's probably plenty enough...

Interesting!

For me it says 1 in 17,179,869,184+, but scrolling through all the variables, the vast majority should be the same for any MacBook Chrome user.

It would be great to see the stats of each individual characteristic.

May I ask if this code is the result of 'vibe coding'?

Here's another one: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

It's important to point out fingerprinting, yet no ordinary user cares.