On the internet, it’s easy to feel anonymous. If you don’t log in, no one can see who you are; you can even switch to incognito mode. The more savvy user would say that’s not really enough. To be anonymous, you need to clear your cookies and use a privacy-oriented browser.

But new research shows even that doesn’t work anymore. Websites are still tracking you — silently, persistently, and without your consent — by reading your browser’s unique “fingerprint.”

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mullvad browser fights fingerprinting. You can check how exposed you are here (no idea how good this site is https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    No anti-fingerprinting method currently in use can evade creepjs to my knowledge. And that EFF site has its own issues... it only tests uniqueness across other visitors the site has seen before, and not all possible combinations of data points.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    we know reddit does aggressive fingerprinting besides using it to identify ban evaders, and im pretty sure they hand that data off to google and openai as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The chameleon browser extension attempts to randomize your fingerprint but it seems to be frowned on by privacy advocates due to being able to read pages visited.

    https://sereneblue.github.io/chameleon/about/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Extensions themselves are also frowned upon by privacy advocates because anything that modifies or restricts the DOM/javascript/etc. can itself be detected and used as yet another data point to identify someone.

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Privacy is one of those things that has to be collective to be effective. It doesn't matter if you put on a hat, a cloak, shades, and a fake beard when you go out of your home if you are the only one doing it, they'll just identify you as the person in a cloak, hat, shades, and a fake beard.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    No one follows the rules

    This is why ordinary people should feel a duty to use adblockers, poison AI/data collection whenever possible, and to use alternative methods of protecting privacy (i.e. pirate rather than using streaming services).

    If we can't be respected, then we should give no respect to organizations and governments who ignore privacy as a basic human right.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Librewold + ublock origin + canvas blocker in help to u

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i thought librewolf already has some canvas fingerprint blocking?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    NoScript

    It will be annoying to use AT FIRST. One you have it set up for all your sites it won't be so bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    No script cannot protect u from on websites which require js for work and thus it cannot protect u from creepjs things and so it required to spoof everything from resolution to os fingerprints

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes, but it blocks many external scripts from running in the first plce. Like, a LOT. Some websites try to pull from 20 external sites when only one or two are needed to run the site's functionality. You get fine control, and also get the no-JS experience first.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Thanks, maybe CanvasBlocker will be less breaking than JShelter. By the way, I recommend AdNauseam, which is a uBlock Origin fork that clicks the ads before hiding them (and without loading their results, so it takes no extra data) to confound advertisers with garbage data.

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