Fingerprints are the new cookies
audio (clean read) | GPU (clean read) | WebGL (clean read) | renderer (clean read) | canvas (clean read) | time zone (clean read) | hardware (clean read) Try refreshing the page. Clear the cookies. Connect to a VPN. You’re still the Rowdy Hedgehog. Now open it on your phone or some other device and your nickname will be different and just as consistent. Is it different in incognito? Good. But it’s always the same? Bad news. Imagine this: Most websites you visit get paid to show ads and indirectly run my script that lets me know you’re the Rowdy Hedgehog. I can use it to decide what ads you’ll see. But more importantly, if you’ve made an account on that website, I can offer to buy your data - whatever they can share under their privacy policy: your name, activity, conversations with AI… Pretty soon I’d know more about you than your friends do - perhaps more than you know yourself. “I have nothing to hide. And I prefer my ads to be relevant… sometimes they show me exactly what I ne