Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick service tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. The service will show the information your web browser tells to web sites and how unique your setup is.
More reading:
Is Every Browser Unique? Results Fom The Panopticlick Experiment
How Unique Is Your Web Browser?
Panopticlick: Your Web browsing is less anonymous than you think
A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Panopticlick: You Are A Beautiful And Unique Snowflake
http://hackaday.com/2015/07/16/panopticlick-you-are-a-beautiful-and-unique-snowflake/
We all like to think we’re unique, but when it comes to remaining anonymous online that’s probably not such a good idea. By now, it’s common knowledge that advertising firms, three-letter agencies, and who-knows-who-else want to know what websites you’re visiting and how often. Persistent tracking cookies, third-party cookies, and “like” buttons keep tabs on you at all times.
For whatever reason, you might want to browse anonymously and try to plug some of the obvious sources of identity leakage. The EFF and their Panopticlick project have bad news for you.
The idea behind Panopticlick is simple: to try to figure out how identifiable you are even if you’re not accepting cookies, or if you’ve disabled Flash, or if you’re using “secure” browsers. To create a fingerprint of your browser, Panopticlick takes all the other little bits of identifying information that your browser gives up, and tries to piece them together.
The takeaway from the project is that the information your browser gives up to servers can, without any cookies, specifically identify you.