# Discourse-fingerprint -- what is it telling me?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [05.Апрель.2019 23:11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589 "2019-04-05T23:11:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [05.Апрель.2019 23:11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/1 "2019-04-05T23:11:48Z")
I have a user interested in [GitHub - discourse/discourse-fingerprint: A plugin that computes user fingerprints to help administrators combat internet trolls. · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-fingerprint) to keep track of sock puppets and such.
I installed the plugin but it just gives a list of “matches”, but I can’t tell what is matching what. Clicking on a user in the list doesn’t change anything.
Is it that all of those users have the same fingerprint?
I thought that I’d seen a topic about this plugin here, but I can’t find it now. The plugin itself links to meta and not a particular topic.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [05.Апрель.2019 23:56:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/2 "2019-04-05T23:56:00Z")
Did you check the [description of the project](https://meta.discourse.org/t/build-a-browser-fingerprinting-plugin/93037)?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [06.Апрель.2019 00:03:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/3 "2019-04-06T00:03:09Z")
Not today, as I was unable to find it. It’s closed and doesn’t link to the repo. I sort of remember it, though.
> [@](#):
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> have a small bit of UI that shows all user accounts that have **matching browser fingerprints with a different user account** , to help identify duplicate users.
So I’d think that there’d be some indication which users share the same fingerprints, but either all of the users identified have the same fingerprint, or I simply don’t understand the interface.
I think I remember something that suggested that everyone using . . . uh, some Apple product (iPhone, maybe?) would have the same fingerprint, so maybe these are all people using Discourse from an iPhone?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [06.Апрель.2019 03:20:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/4 "2019-04-06T03:20:11Z")
Are you referring to this?
> [@Browser Fingerprinting plugin updates?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browser-fingerprinting-plugin-updates/105408/2):
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> It is available under the discourse org on GitHub. Be aware that fingerprinting iOS devices is quite difficult.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [06.Апрель.2019 12:33:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/5 "2019-04-06T12:33:58Z")
Yes. My only guess is that all users that I see use iOS and have the same fingerprint.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [06.Апрель.2019 21:11:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/6 "2019-04-06T21:11:26Z")
iOS definitely makes fingerprinting very difficult by design.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [07.Апрель.2019 05:00:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/7 "2019-04-07T05:00:13Z")
Kind of highlights how poorly apple are doing on the desktop.
We’re well past the point where browsers need to know about locally installed third-party fonts.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [09.Апрель.2019 21:28:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/8 "2019-04-09T21:28:15Z")
Firefox is going to make fingerprinting harder very soon
> **[Protections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in...](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/)**
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> We have added a feature to block fingerprinting and cryptomining in Firefox Nightly as an option for users to turn on.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28.Июнь.2022 20:14:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/9 "2022-06-28T20:14:13Z")
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [28.Июнь.2022 21:30:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-what-is-it-telling-me/113589/10 "2022-06-28T21:30:28Z")