Comment by nvme0n1p1

I see so many misconceptions on HN about that coveryourtracks site. Neither of those results are ideal.

"randomized fingerprint" -> that's a bad result, it means the site can detect you're spoofing info

"unique fingerprint" -> this is good, ONLY IF you refresh and it still says "unique fingerprint", because it means the site sees you as a brand new visitor each visit, and doesn't detect any (what advertisers would call) nefarious behavior. however, if you visit again and the second time it says "nearly-unique fingerprint", that's a fail because your two visits were linked

The ideal result you should aim for is "non-unique fingerprint". That means your device is indistinguishable from countless others. Blending in to the crowd is what you want.