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

• FE80@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This somehow assumes that your fingerprint is going to vary, and be unique, every time you interact with a tracker. That’s basically not ever going to be the case for casual use.

        If Cloudflare fails the tick-box Captcha and I need to tell it what squares contain motorcycles, that would suggest that I currently have a unique fingerprint that they do not have yet enough history on to tie to a person. How often do you get to do the square puzzle nowadays?

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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