Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous

FE80@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Using a browser like Librewolf is, itself a unique identifier bc not enough people are using it.

  EFF has a tool that lets you check your “uniqueness” and bc I used a lesser known browser, it was easier to track me.

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  • FE80@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    coveryourtracks.eff.org is the EFF tool.

    My results say that I have strong protections against tracking, and that my browser is unique. It’s as good as I can get.

    The agent switcher also tells the world my Librewolf on Linux is Chrome on Windows.

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    • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t it a bad thing to be unique in this context? If my browser is 1 in a million, that means that a tracker can pick me out of a lineup of a million users, no? That’s why a captcha can verify you as human simply by checking a box, because it can identify your unique browser as associated with human activity.

      If I’m not mistaken, we want the opposite. We want our browsers to be as generic as possible if we don’t want to be tracked.

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      • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would think unique means you appear as a never before seen individual and not one they can identify from their fingerprint history. If you fingerprint twice and both are unique, you are secure.

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    • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for linking it! I should have done that. And if LibreWolf is showing as Chrome on Windows, then you’re good!

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    • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for linking it! I should have done that. And if LibreWolf is showing as Chrome on Windows, then you’re good!

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• blurb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger shouldn’t be paired together. Containers do nothing to prevent your fingerprint from being collected. LibreWolf itself is easily fingerprintable. And the user agent isn’t the only telltale sign of your browser and OS, changing it will just make you more unique.

  Just use Mullvad Browser with the default settings.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It should be noted that user agent switchers may break some website functionalities. I guess this is true for nearly all privacy protections, though this is the only one that gave me any noticeable trouble.

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• hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This breaks most websites you’ll visit. Just to keep in mind to others considering locking their browser down.

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