Browsers can track you by your graphics card — and almost no privacy tool stops it
Browsers can track you by your graphics card — and almost no privacy tool stops it
https://www.makeuseof.com/browsers-can-track-by-graphics-card-almost-no-privacy-tool-stops-it/
Publish Date: 2026-06-26 15:00:00
Source Domain: www.makeuseof.com
I opened a browser fingerprinting test site a while back, feeling fairly confident about my privacy setup. I had a tracker blocker installed, cookies were regularly cleared, and a VPN was humming away in the background. That’s a reasonable stack of defenses, isn’t it?
The results were humbling. Right there in the report, my browser had exposed my GPU vendor, the renderer string identifying my graphics hardware, floating-point precision values from the shader pipeline, and a list of supported WebGL extensions. It did all of that without asking for permission, and before cookies even entered the conversation.
That was the moment I started thinking about browser fingerprinting differently.
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