You can’t hide or get rid of the browser fingerprint, but some addons can help to randomize it so it looks like you’re using a different device every time you visit a site.
Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Does anonymous mode browsing+VPN improve this? I would think it would
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Personally, I don’t care if a site can fingerprint me. As long as they can’t tie that fingerprint to a rich data set.
So I make sure that each domain gets a different fingerprint response. That means that a site can validate that I’m still the same user, but any XSS attempting fingerprint based data exchange just gets garbage.
tb_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And how do you go about that? Do you adjust your window size and extensions on a site-by-site basis?
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Is Firefox’s claimed Anti fingerprinting technology any good?
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some, but only if you’re using a very common device (i.e. Dell Latitude) with Windows. Browser fingerprinting gives up hardware specs, so hiding by blending in only works when your hardware is hard to pin down.
Use a browser that hides hardware specs, like Mullvad or Libreworlf. Even Brave is ok.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Part of the reason tor browser is good because it generates same fingerprint for all users (part of the reason you shouldn’t install additional extensions on it btw). Mullvad browser tries to do this but without tor network.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How would tor do that? As far as I understand the fingerprint is an aggregate of multiple very specific variables ie amiunique.org/fingerprint. Sure tor might set some (or a lot) to a default but some are very difficult to circumvent such as the rendering of specific shapes and text.