FYI - This article is from 2020.

I know they did some stuff semi-recently about the security of direct calls. So there is a high chance this is have changed since then.

Yeh, not like they can’t work it out.

(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can’t get them to understand the building I’m in has multiple houses in it…)

It depends who you are trying to hide from. A VPN will hide your internet traffic from your ISP/phone company, but obviously not from the site you are visiting.

At best you might be one of may people connecting from the same (VPN) IP address, but they can still collect info from your browser/app etc to generate points to ID you if they want.

That’s a very interesting site, thank you!

It looks like the screen size is the most identifying info for me, followed by the webGL hash. Not much can be done about those on mobile right?

You have to be pretty close to sniff Bluetooth data though. So fine at home, less so in a busy public space. (The chances of someone there trying to hack your Bluetooth is still astranomically small)

… I assume they have both the phone and laptop with them when they are away from home?

In that case, the entire windows ecosystem collapses when Microsoft messes up windows defender… at least if its spread out it hurts less people