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The numbers don't make much sense to me. On FF I get 14.05 with NoScript active. Curiously the headers increase from 1.68 bits to 3.47 when NoScript is running.


NoScript is likely a valuable fingerprinting indicator, given that the vast majority of browsers have JavaScript enabled but you don’t.


Of course no script increases the entropy. Most people don't run NoScript, so you are more identifiable when you run it.


It increases the entropy for the JavaScript tests as would be expected. It shouldn't affect the HTTP_ACCEPT header.


I'm curious about the difference between things like NoScript and native Brave script blocking.

In particular I was going to make a snarky comment that the site seems to, appropriately, not work when script blocking is enabled on Brave. I do get the site to do the refresh business a couple of times, but no results are ever displayed.




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