Screen - How screen properties can be detected

 

How detecting properties of screen affects your anonymity?

Websites can see your screen resolution of monitor, browser window size and other parameters. It’s provide an opportunity to identify and create a unique digital fingerprint thus leading to your anonymity disclosure.

 

How screen properties can be detected?

On our website you can see your properties received via the “screen” object (JavaScript).

 

How to hide screen properties?

1. If website using JavaScript as detection method, you can completely disable JavaScript, or by using the browser extensions configure a list of trusted websites where JavaScript is enabled.

2. You can spoof screen properties with a special utilities or plugins.

 

Screen information that you can check on our website:

• Width — the width of the screen in pixels.

• Height — the height of the screen in pixels.

• availWidth — the available width. The screen width in pixels minus the settings of the user interface of the operating system (such as the Taskbar on Windows).

• availHeight — the available height. The screen height in pixels minus the settings of the user interface of the operating system (such as the Taskbar on Windows).

• availTop — Y-coordinate of the first pixel that is not allocated to user interface features.

• availLeft — X-coordinate of the first pixel that is not allocated to user interface features.

• Color depth — the maximum number of colors that can be displayed.

• Pixel depth — the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel.

• Window size — the size of the browser window and the custom screen resolution.