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HI @Chevindu! It's not a foolish question at all :) Screen resolution is one of the signals used for fingerprinting, but window size and position are not. You can have a look at the FingerprintJS demo: https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/ You can try resizing your browser window and reloading the demo page, you will see that the fingerprint does not change. However, dragging the browser window to a second monitor with a different screen resolution than the first one will change the fingerprint. The |
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HI @Chevindu! It's not a foolish question at all :)
Screen resolution is one of the signals used for fingerprinting, but window size and position are not. You can have a look at the FingerprintJS demo: https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/
which shows a JSON of all the data that is hashed into a fingerprint.
You can try resizing your browser window and reloading the demo page, you will see that the fingerprint does not change. However, dragging the browser window to a second monitor with a different screen resolution than the first one will change the fingerprint.
The
visitorId
provided by Fingerprint Pro (as opposed to the open-source Fingerprint JS) is much more stable: https:/…