🕵️ What a website learns about you in 3 seconds
You just opened a page. Didn't type anything, didn't log in. And the site has already built a file on you. How?
🔍 It's called a browser fingerprint
The site reads dozens of small details that are harmless on their own but together form an almost unique "print":
🔸 device model, OS, and browser version
🔸 screen resolution and scaling
🔸 your list of installed fonts
🔸 language and time zone
🔸 the exact way your graphics card renders an image
The combination is rare enough to recognize you without a single cookie.
😮 Can you actually do anything about it?
You can clear cookies and switch on incognito, but the fingerprint stays. Sites keep recognizing you across the web and stitching your activity into one profile. That's how ads end up following you around everywhere.
🛡 What helps
✅ Hide your IP and location, the first and biggest piece of your print
✅ Use a browser with built-in fingerprinting protection (Brave, Firefox with resistFingerprinting, Tor)
✅ Run fewer extensions, since each one makes you more unique
Hiding everything is hard, but covering the basics, your IP and location, takes only a couple of seconds. A VPN does exactly that: the site sees the server, not you. One layer of the print closes right away.
Stay protected,
🌍 Planet VPN
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