That’s side effects, the difference is irrelevant anyway.
I insist because I think it’s important to understand this, both for you and for people reading these comments. The whole point of fingerprinting is to be able to track users without relying on cookies or IP. Changing IP does not protect against fingerprinting. I don’t want people to be mislead by your comment and think they are going to avoid tracking by just taking a better VPN.
“Browser fingerprinting” is a method of tracking web browsers by the configuration and settings information they make visible to websites, rather than traditional tracking methods such as IP addresses and unique cookies.
And you can check the source code to see there is no mention of IP address:
It might have a side effect but it’s still unrelated and useless for the purpose at hand.
so to what do you attribute the difference in score, when it’s different with the VPN on vs off I wonder?
I’m amused at your insistence it does nothing when it clearly does.
That’s side effects, the difference is irrelevant anyway.
I insist because I think it’s important to understand this, both for you and for people reading these comments. The whole point of fingerprinting is to be able to track users without relying on cookies or IP. Changing IP does not protect against fingerprinting. I don’t want people to be mislead by your comment and think they are going to avoid tracking by just taking a better VPN.
You can read more here:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting
And you can check the source code to see there is no mention of IP address:
https://github.com/EFForg/cover-your-tracks/blob/master/fingerprint/fingerprint_helper.py
if it changes the score than how is it meaningless? the score is worthless?