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How does a fresh VM have a supposedly unique fingerprint?
Jan. 19, 2022, 5:35 a.m. | /u/frosty3907
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Testing with amiunique.org I made a new VM running win10pro via hyper-v manager, installed with the basic settings most people would use in my country, set a common screen resolution, opened the pre-installed version of edge and went to amiunique.org and apparently it is a unique fingerprint.
How?
Apparently my user agent ( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36 Edg/97.0.1072.62 ) has only 0.16% and there's a whole bunch of other attributes "in the …
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