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nottorpyesterday at 4:47 PM1 replyview on HN

An instant loading page without animations and more contrast would have been more fun.

The fact that it begins with my IP address reminds me of those dubious VPN ads.

City is wrong, I may speak English but it's not my native language.

As other people said, there are much better pages showing you your browser fingerprint.


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mrguyoramayesterday at 5:45 PM

And like most people discussing these things, you entirely miss the point.

It doesn't matter whether you actually speak english natively or not, nobody cares about the actual values. Web sites don't actually care whether you have a robust font package in some way to discern whether you are a font hipster or something, they are just collecting signals.

What matters is that your physical machine and web browser combo report these values about the same way every single time they are probed, and that is used to reliably track YOU, uniquely, with great accuracy, with EVERYTHING you do on the internet, every site you visit, every mouse movement, every purchase linked back to you.

Everything.

The actual values don't have to match "reality" in any way. It's just about generating bits of signal about your setup.

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