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Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies

21 points·by silverrump·6 месяцев назад·50 comments

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silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Thanks for trying it and calling out problems — it helped us find and fix the bug. The issue has now been resolved and DevicePrint should give much more sensible results going forward.
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Totally hear you — we appreciate the critique. We’ve now fixed a real issue that was skewing results, and the current version relies on deterministic signals rather than anything heuristic or generative.
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Yes — browsers isolate storage between containers, so that behavior is expected. Fingerprints will be consistent within a given profile unless significant attributes change.
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
We’ve just deployed a fix to the core matching logic that should significantly improve accuracy and reduce false positives. Feel free to retry at https://deviceprint.io and share your results!
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Thanks for pointing that out — we’ve corrected the display so no other visitors’ IPs or locations are shown. We take privacy seriously and have updated the site to reflect that.
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Good question — we’ve taken that feedback seriously. We’re currently working on making more documentation publicly accessible without a login, so people can evaluate DevicePrint before signing up.
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Thanks everyone for the detailed reports — the strange multiple visits and location jumps were due to a bug in how we combined signals. This has now been resolved, and subsequent fingerprints should be much more accurate across browsers and devices. Appreciate the testing!
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Good catch — that was exactly the symptom of the issue we just resolved. The over-counting was caused by fingerprint collisions in certain edge cases. The fix has been deployed, so it shouldn’t happen on new uses anymore. Thanks for the feedback!
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Thanks for checking it out! We’ve identified the root cause of the inaccurate visit counts you saw and have now fixed the issue — the accuracy of DevicePrint should be much better now. If you have any remaining odd results, let us know!
silverrump
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Happy to answer any technical questions or discuss implementation details.