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:
with budget vpn on: one in 22756.25 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours
with budget vpn off and just apple safebrowsing on: one in 20231.22 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
i have the worst vpn!
A VPN is unrelated, it changes your IP but the IP is not used to fingerprint.
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It might have a side effect but it’s still unrelated and useless for the purpose at hand.
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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
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