[tor-talk] panopticlick data

Andreas Krey a.krey at gmx.de
Tue Oct 1 05:48:09 UTC 2013


On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:08:58 +0000, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
...
> No cookies are set, so that doesn't affect outcome.  In fact, the "bits 
> of identifying information" shown in results chart largely remain 
> identical (except screen size sometimes changes), but their estimate of 
> "One in X browsers have the  same fingerprint as yours," keeps going 
> down dramatically - each time I re run the test.

How do you expect them to identify repeat visitors as opposed to
counting them as separate incarnations, thus lowering the uniqueness?

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800


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