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JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So from what I understand, theres 2 common ways that browsers combat this. Someone add to or correct me if I’m wrong.

Browsers such as Mull combat this by looking the same as every other browser. If you all look the same, it’s hard to tell you apart.
Browsers such as Brave randomize metadata that fingerprinting collects so that it’s more difficult to piece it all together and build a trend/profile on someone.

These aren’t the only options, these are just ones I’ve read about recently. Online behavior, browswr window size, and I’m sure so much more also goes into it. But every little bit helps and is better than nothing.

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drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The first point is flawed and even TOR doesn’t execute javascript because it’s impossible to catch everything when you give the server full code running capabilities.

The second point is more plausible but there’s an incredible amount of work to do to fix this. Like, needing to rework browser engines from ground up and removing all of the legacy cruft. Brave is not capable of this and never will be no matter what they advertise because it doesn’t have it’s own engine.

That being said, these tools will get you quite far against commercial fingerprint products especially ones used for Ads but that will also ruin your browser experience as now you’re just solving captchas everywhere 🫠

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- JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks for adding! Could you clarify a bit on the points so I can better understand where I was wrong at?
  
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mathemachristian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Mull is discontinued unfortunately, although I think it got forked?

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- masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For mobile, mullvad (from the actual VPN folk) for desktop still exists.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Mullvad browser and Mull were not affiliated.
    
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    masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s why I said (from the actual vpn folk)
    
    The two were often conflated because “mull” in the name. They also used many of the same resources for the prefs.js and other tweaks. (Arkenfox, tor uplift, etc)
    
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- JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah maybe Tor Browser was the better example. Just trying to get the point out lol.
  
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