
Browser Fingerprinting: What Your Browser Is Telling Everyone About You
Jacob Roach
created: Oct. 16, 2025, 11:30 a.m. | updated: Oct. 19, 2025, 9:03 p.m.
For instance, a website might know that your default system language is English, so it loads the English version of its website.
What’s a Browser Fingerprint?
AmIUnique via Jacob RoachThe best way to describe a browser fingerprint is to show you.
Your browser fingerprint is a collection of innocuous information about your PC that, when put together, is unique enough that it could identify an individual.
Some of the components of your browser fingerprint include your computer's hardware, your browser and version, the various versions of software you have running in your browser, the fonts you have installed on your PC, your time zone, your system language, your keyboard layout; the list goes on.
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