Why aren’t you informing the OP that these fingerprinting websites are flawed? This has been spoken about countless times, becoming exhausting to clarify.
You are right, of course.
But it feels like it is so hard to find up-to-date trustworthy information on fingerprinting and the various defences that I can understand people (including myself) being tempted to rely on these (at best) imperfect fingerprinting test websites.
There is a lot of information scattered around (in this forum as well as the broader web) but in general it is hard to know whether someone is correct in what they say. (I found your links helpful because they were effectively vouching for those posts and thus I felt I could trust them.)
Probably because it comes up so often, people I respect as having expertise in this area often seem to respond in cryptic or curt ways because they are sick of explaining this, but that doesn’t help when I read their posts in isolation.
A lot of the general web content on fingerprinting also omits a lot of technical detail to try to make the concept intelligible to a casual reader - which is laudable, but speaking personally I want to understand things at a reasonably technical level so I can form a good mental model and reason about the problem myself when considering possible defences and what I can/must accept as inevitable.
I have seen mention of Privacy Guides creating a FAQ or some sort of resource on fingerprinting. It would be brilliant if PG could produce something authoritative which explains all the relevant concepts and issues in depth. I appreciate everyone’s time is limited, but honestly this is the thing I would most like to see in terms of PG site development.
I appreciate and use both Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser, but for various reasons they aren’t always practical options, so I am very interested in evaluating the risks to my privacy of using other browsers.