That one browser which everyone hates despite it being the best adblocker and anti-surveillance browser out there randomizes your fingerprint.
Tell me how, then, because I don’t know how to get around the font thing. Everybody’s computer has a different set of fonts, and blocking browsers from seeing what fonts you have installed would help identify you even more.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
“Just” remove a random 2.5% of the fonts, a different random set per request (context).
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just have everyone agree on a set of fonts to report and report those.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 2 months ago
That would solve the anonymity problem but not the “obscure when requests are duplicates” problem
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I think that reveals you aren’t a “normal” request. Since “normal” user requests don’t have that exact list of fonts. I’m anonymous, but aberrant.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 2 months ago
A browser extension that limits webpages to default Windows fonts only would eliminate that factor from contributing to identification without flagging it as suspicious. A slightly more robust version could frequently cycle between multiple subsets of default Windows fonts. Say Windows comes with 100 fonts. So you could have thousands of configurations with different subsets of those.