A new guide for the privacy side of the knowledge base.
What Your Browser Tells About You: Fingerprinting Explained covers how dozens of small signals, such as fonts, screen size, canvas and audio rendering, combine into a near-unique signature. It explains why this survives clearing cookies and hiding your IP, where encrypted DNS does and does not help, and which changes actually reduce your fingerprint. You can see many of these signals on your own browser with our IP and fingerprint check.
A guide on how a site can recognise you from dozens of small browser details, even with cookies cleared and your IP hidden, and what actually reduces it.
Highlights
- How fingerprinting builds a near-unique signature from ordinary browser details
- Why it survives clearing cookies and hiding your IP
- What reduces your fingerprint, and the honest limits of each step