Collected research
How Unique Is Your Web Browser?
Fingerprints from 470,161 browsers visiting panopticlick.eff.org were built from eight passively and actively collected attributes, including plugin lists and Flash/Java font enumeration. The distribution held at least 18.1 bits of entropy and 83.6% of browsers were unique, rising to 94.2% with Flash or Java. A simple heuristic re-linked 99.1% of changed fingerprints to their predecessors.
Record
- Researcher
- Peter Eckersley
- Published by
- coveryourtracks.eff.org
- Format
- Whitepaper
- Topic
- Browser
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This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Peter Eckersley, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on .