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you are being identified easily on the web

the electronic frontier foundation has demonstrated how to identify the browser on the web by using some anonymous information collected from your browser. it evaluates some unique information from the http request headers (like ip address etc.), and uses javascript to detect some browsers settings (like plugins installed, font size etc.) to identify the browser. you can try out their test from here.

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