{"id":10737,"date":"2011-08-18T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:25:25","slug":"how-unique-and-therefore-how-easy-to-track-is-your-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/how-unique-and-therefore-how-easy-to-track-is-your-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"How unique (and therefore how easy to track) is your web browser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have a <a href=\"http:\/\/panopticlick.eff.org\" target=\"_blank\">new tool<\/a> you can use to find out how easy it would be for third parties to track your browser usage, based on how it differs from others:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Panopticlick.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Panopticlick\" width=\"580\" height=\"292\" size-full wp-image-10738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Panopticlick.jpg 580w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Panopticlick-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Panopticlick-480x241.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from my test (on a brand new machine), I have a <em>unique<\/em> browser configuration among the 1.7 million tested so far. My browser would be easy to track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have a new tool you can use to find out how easy it would be for third parties to track your browser usage, based on how it differs from others:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[169,58,154],"class_list":["post-10737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-eff","tag-internet","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10741,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions\/10741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}