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https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ is less detailed but shows the individual uniqueness of each attribute.

that site has the same issue. It will give ridiculous and easily provably false results for iPhones.

There are ~40 million in the PST time-zone. Some percent have smartphones (80%+), ~50% of those are iPhones (16 million). Of those, the majority are set it English (80%+), and are divided into screen sizes. But basically, if you have an iPhone, you have the same fingerprint has at least a million other other people in the PST time size. You are at best, 1 of 100, not 1 of x,xxx,xxx,xxx.

You might be x,xxx,xxx,xxx of people who visited that unpopular site but no one needs tracking on an unpopular site. On a popular site you will not have a unique finger print.

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