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  Our tests indicate that you have you have strong protection against Web tracking.

  Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 191,640 tested in the past 45 days.

  User Agent
  w3m/0.5.3+git20230718
  Bits of identifying information: 17.55
  One in x browsers have this value: 191640.0

So I have strong protection by being basically unique? Not sure what this means.

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I think it's saying, hey you tried and it's better than most

I think you might have missed where it says if your browser is blocking tracking ads and invisible trackers. At least for me I got the same "strong protection" message and unique fingerprint, but it did indicate that I'm blocking both of the aforementioned.

I quoted only parts of the page. My point is, when being unique while being strongly protected, am I really protected?

Well the question at that point is, protected from whom? Security is never a binary state, it can only be assessed relative to a given threat model. I'd say that being protected from all the sites that don't use fingerprinting scripts is certainly better than not. If fingerprinting is a concern to you though grab a factory default iPhone, should be pretty a pretty common fingerprint.

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