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Thanks Joe, turns out 'may" not need to. I've been testing 2 browsers that are brand new on my laptop with Panopticlick, and they test as "nearly unique fingerprint". The have no records of any thing, so I don't think I'll get a better score than that.

That is as good as I think one can get.

Then I tweaked a few settings and even Safari, Firefox, Chrome achieved "nearly unique" too.


Artie, yes, I can move to new internet cafe of friends, libraries etc for a new IP, and use private window-- but as others have pointed out, Google and many will use this digital fingerprint now.
Though on iphone chrome still says unique, not nearly unique.

Do you know this site? Seems to be the best tester of this stuff. Can one get better than "nearly unique"?

As far as installing -- a copy of the browser in the /Users/username/Applications folder on separate user accounts --

Sounds a bit hairy, but I could try...