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Why does my OS is displayed as Android on Browserleaks?

Written by Davi

This is normal in some proxy/VPN setups; it doesn’t mean your PC is actually being detected as Android.

What’s happening

The TCP/IP fingerprint does not read your operating system directly.
It guesses based on network behavior, such as:

  • packet size (MTU)

  • TCP behavior (window size, flags, etc.)

  • TTL (time to live)

  • It’s just an inference, not an exact detection

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