Browser fingerprinting is nasty and easy. There are ways to push back but it’s still awful.
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noroute@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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RandomPancake@lemmy.world 9 months ago
noroute@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]RandomPancake@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I know people are passionate about their love / hated of Brave, but it along with LibreWolf (and Firefox) all offer strong fingerprinting protection out of the box. With Firefox, just make sure you add uBlock Origin.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I believe that firefox is one if the few who has at least some sort of protection against it.
Pretty much everything that’s not Chrome does.
jaybone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait Firefox sends fingerprint info?
Why is there not an open source browser that doesn’t send this shit?
prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 9 months ago
Firefox does not “send” it, fingerprinting is done by tagging your hardware configuration from various values and create a unique key from that - independent of being logged in or any cookies - which can be used to track you. Things like browser & device user agent, browser window size, feature support (to determine browser version), etc. All of which are passively gathered by anything you could send a request to. There are ways to reduce this that Firefox and others do (such as reducing unique values in user agent, etc) but they’re not opting in to some privacy invading reporting mechanism.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Wait Firefox sends fingerprint info?
Ehhh there’s really no such thing as “fingerprinting info”. Your browser sends info about your PC to every webpage you visit so the page can load properly. Some of them just send more info than others, which makes it easier to fingerprint you.
Check out deviceinfo.me to see what kind of info your browser is sending.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah they analyze your browser history and then generate labels of things you’re presumably interested in and then share it with any website that asks. Privacy friendly alright.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
If google is doing this, they have a much better way to track them.
They do. It’s the new “Ad Privacy” features built into Chrome that tracks every webpage you visited (locally) and then sends your profile out to advertisers when you visit a page.
LWD@lemm.ee 9 months ago
_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 9 months ago
I feel fuckin dirty even reading that last paragraph. It’s so detached from any sane reality.
sukhmel@programming.dev 9 months ago
I thought privacy as per Google meant that it will trade your data with everyone interested, just will not show them your name/phone number/address (which also quite conveniently makes Google the single point of contact with you and allows to charge more)