How does Google know it's me?

I suspect the same is true of everyone with customised paranoid protected browser settings with minor variations or omissions.

They gain a lot of information by probing available system fonts - an identifying signature that may well be unique to anyone with a mixture of rare or unusual fonts on their system.

Everyone gets a prize in the new world order. It's good for your self esteem. (If you think this is funny, don't make me give you SSRI's.)

:)

Very good idea. But it not only sanitizes your identity it gives you better search results than Google.

Six things that every computer users should do:

1. Install Ghostery
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   (not for Internet Explorer).
2. Install Ad Block Plus
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3. Modify your Hosts File to block rogue web sites
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4. Set ixquick
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   as your default search engine.
5. Install the paid version of MalwareBytes and schedule automatic scans. Hurry if you want to buy a lifetime subscription because they are no longer producing those licenses.
6. If you use Facebook, install FB Purity
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Now all hackers, advertisers, tracking companies, spy agencies, other search engines, and Facebook, hate you.

Uh oh, I got "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the

exactly. You are a spotted orange unicorn prancing in front of an army of hunters. Any idea why?

Google 'supercookie' or 'evercookie'. There are some interesting places that evil websites can hide unique data other than standard browser cookies.

Here's a good demo and explanation of some of the tricks available:

"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 28,427 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 14.79 bits of identifying information."

Could be a lot worse!

Not even at gunpoint. (that's a joke - most of those schol shooters are on those or something like them)

My seratonin reuptake is just fine thank you.

Take this rare, possibly once in a lifetime chance to get this font. I shit you not. I picked this baby out of a game over a decade ago.

Not sure about these newer versions of Windows but the procedure is basical ly just to copy that file into your \fonts directory and then when you open Word or whatever it will be available in the font selection menu. If you j ust double click it in an explorer widow it will diosplays it for you. You know that every brown fox jumps over a blue tick or something like that.

Enjoy.

Thing is, you can't just up and use it on a webpage for example unless the viewer's PC allows for font installation on the fly. You could always use l ike a screen capture or text in a picture editor and just put up a JPG of i t.

I am not sure where I stole that from, but the file date on my PC says 2002 . If anyone is alive to sue you for using it, I say just give them the doll ar. Hell, they should just forget that and pay you for the publicity.

I could see some eighty year old guy busting a nut - "Look Emma, I could su e someone finally !". Yeah right.

Anyway, anonymity on the internet is practically impossible. If you use a l aptop and the wifi at a Starbucks to threaten the President or some shit, e ventually thay will find that LAPTOP. they are not going to raid Starbucks.

Well, if you come back they might send a car for you...

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect securely to panopticlick.eff.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified. What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

panopticlick.eff.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

Works for me.

Certificate issuer is shown as startcom ltd, possibly you do not have this issuer configured as trusted in your browser.

I get this sort of thing a lot when I connect to a "secured" (https) site that is not a large commercial entity. The thing you have to ask yourself is, would I have connected to it if it was plain http?

All the security certificate really means is that the owner can afford to buy one and traffic between you and the site cannot be easily read by a third party (GCHQ and NSA excepted). It says nothing much about who they are or how much they can be trusted.

I have sadly seen plenty of corporate commercial sites with misconfigured security certificates. Hit one last night with a bank!

I thought at first I had been DNS hijacked until I was able to verify the details and work out what they had done wrong :(

An ordinary user stands no chance...

I must admit, I am a bit dumb-founded by the extent of this tracking thing. I half expected (hoped?) that there would be an "Invisibility cloak" like in the comics... Anyone has read Franz Kafka? This thing is incredibly evil. As an artist at least, I would call it "The Auswitchation of society." Let's start over.