Panopticlick – How unique – and Trackable – is your browser?
by Peter
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits.
So I ran the test on the following browsers…
|
|
Works |
Identifying number of bits |
|
Internet Explorer 9.0 |
Fails |
— |
|
Safari (Mac) |
Yes |
20.65 |
|
Firefox 5.0 (Mac) |
Yes |
20.65 |
|
Android Native Browser |
Yes |
20.65 |
|
Yes |
20.65 |
Interesting item… Androids NATIVE Mobile Browser does NOT support the following:
- DOM localStorage: NO, DOM sessionStorage: NO, IE userData: No
However if you run the same test in KeyNote’s MITE (Mobile Internet Testing Environment) it will indicate that it does support it.
Posted in: #mobile, #webperf, #wpo, Context, Performance