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Comment by Computer0

21 hours ago

Any idea how iOS’ private browsing impacts fingerprinting?

It doesn’t. Same there

  • It can make a small difference on this site, though. Testing it with three browsers (Safari, Brave, Firefox Focus) on iOS with Private Browsing on, each gets a different name and hash — then again, those do stick to the browser pretty well after that and are resistant to incognito mode (or session switch by other means), for example, just like you’d expect. On Safari, Private Browsing masks the IP at least, and Brave has its own tricks.

    • I use private browsing and could not replicate your result, though I have done a few things on my device such as enable developer mode that the OS has warned me decreases my security.