I'm pretty sure cookies are tied to the TLD or something. You can steal a cookie using cross-site scripting, but that would be a security breach on the website the cookie belongs to, not you visiting a malicious site. I suppose if a browser exploit gave them system access they could do whatever they liked.
How unique is your browser?
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I'm pretty sure cookies are tied to the TLD or something. You can steal a cookie using cross-site scripting, but that would be a security breach on the website the cookie belongs to, not you visiting a malicious site. I suppose if a browser exploit gave them system access they could do whatever they liked.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 662,405 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.34 bits of identifying information.
Firefox with NoScript:
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors, only one in 8,952 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 13.13 bits of identifying information.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.34 bits of identifying information.
Firefox with NoScript:
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors, only one in 8,952 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 13.13 bits of identifying information.
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How spooky, mine is 19.33 aswell
Mine is 19.34.
Me has decided it's a load of scaremongering crap.
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Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors, only one in 2,932 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 11.52 bits of identifying information.
Do I win?
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 11.52 bits of identifying information.
Do I win?
It's EFF, dawg
I like that lovely way of pulling out visited sites lists using JS.
Set a and a:visited to different colours with CSS, make JS render a load of links and check what colour the browser renders them as, if it's the visited colour they've been there, if not they haven't. Sure it relies on the user's history, and you can only check for a specific list of URLs, but how many normal users regularly clear their history, and if you just want to know "Have they visited facebook?" or "do they use gmail, hotmail or yahoo" then you can find that out more often than not. Which could be quite useful to the right people.
Set a and a:visited to different colours with CSS, make JS render a load of links and check what colour the browser renders them as, if it's the visited colour they've been there, if not they haven't. Sure it relies on the user's history, and you can only check for a specific list of URLs, but how many normal users regularly clear their history, and if you just want to know "Have they visited facebook?" or "do they use gmail, hotmail or yahoo" then you can find that out more often than not. Which could be quite useful to the right people.
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Seems to be rubbish, got the same score in IE as in Opera and I rarely use IE save for sites Opera refuses to display properly.
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Same results as everyone else, except only 1 in 6 users have the same time zone as me. I'm special!
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Seems to be almost the same as everyone elses here so I can't be that unique.
More evidence for the "It's Rubbish!" observation:
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 666,720 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.35 bits of identifying information."
This is from Opera 10.10.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 666,720 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.35 bits of identifying information."
This is from Opera 10.10.