Browser fingerprint test: how trackable are you?

A browser fingerprint is a profile built from the properties your browser reveals — canvas and WebGL rendering, screen size, timezone, languages, fonts, CPU and memory hints, and more. Combined, these are often unique enough to recognise you across websites without any cookie or login.

It reads the same signals a tracker would — a hashed canvas render, WebGL renderer, screen geometry, timezone, languages, and hardware hints — then combines them into one ID. Everything is computed in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Reload the page and you'll get the same ID on the same device.

Often, yes. The exact mix of your canvas hash, screen, timezone, and hardware is rarely shared by another visitor, which is what makes fingerprinting effective. The more unusual your setup — custom fonts, uncommon resolution — the more identifiable you are.

Not on its own — fingerprinting reads your browser, not your IP, so a VPN can't erase it. But your IP is the piece that ties a fingerprint to your real location and identity. Hiding your IP with Zippa removes that link, so a fingerprint is much harder to connect back to you.

Use a mainstream browser at default settings (so you blend in), keep it updated, limit unusual extensions and fonts, and consider anti-fingerprinting features. Pair that with a VPN to hide your IP, so even a matched fingerprint can't be linked to your location.

It depends who runs it. Plenty of free VPNs pay their bills by logging and selling browsing data — that's the real catch. Zippa is funded by people who upgrade to Premium, not by your data, and we keep a strict no-logs policy, so there's nothing to record or sell in the first place.