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Material You (Monet) theme color as means of fingerprinting?

Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial] April 30, 2026
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I mean, it’s not only small areas sometimes. If you post a screenshot of an app like Settings or any Material You colored app, even the background is tinted.

This raises the question: Which color to choose if unavoidable?

The fixed blue one as it is a common favorite color? LineageOS stock wallpaper Monet green as it might be common? Or possibly the most common color: a Google blue (is this even a thing anymore?) profile loaded with ColorBlendr?

Also, now that I’m in this rabbit hole, you can even be fingerprinted by “Font size” and “Display size” settings (or in dev settings: “Smallest width” dpi setting or “Display cutout”/notch of your device).

Bad actors may not do it yet or don’t realize it can be done, but the possibility to analyze these is there.

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