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Originally Posted by rowan
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 944,853 tested so far.
Interesting... I've been using something similar (or maybe the same - haven't read the entire article yet) to calculate uniques from logs that don't include an IP address, but do include all request headers.
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This is WAY not accurate enough to even be considered a replacement for cookies...
The largest diff in these sets of info is going to be the installed system fonts... That means every single layman user that never adds fonts is going to fall into some rather large buckets. Not to mention... I just installed a font and now I'm not even in the same bucket...
Serving DRM content... well if it's using DRM in the first place it would have to be cracked to be reused... or capped, or whatever... in which case your unique code would also be destroyed. Except this unique code isn't really unique... far from it... and all the user would have to do is install a single font or remove one to become a different "user"... Unless you plan on logging every single request with IP and browser signature... but even then they can change who they are by installing a font...
