https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
how did you reduce your fingerprinting ?
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I use an addon called Chameleon that creates a random user agent that changes periodically.
similar, i used Random User Agent, it shows that i have a unique finger print... but the user agent of that fingerprint is not 'my' user agent, so in 30 mintutes i would appear as a different fingerprint
In my experience, you have thee choices. You can use NoScript and avoid enabling domains required for fingerprinting, you can turn on privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config, or instead of focusing on not being fingerprinted, focus on guaranteeing your fingerprint will keep changing.
I turned privacy.resistFingerprinting to true and now get an absolutely unique fingerprint on the tool
Be aware that any sites using HTML5 Canvas will probably be broken now. It breaks some other niche things too that may not be obviously related, so just keep that in mind if any site starts acting up.
That might be because it'll be new every time.
Edit: I haven't done my homework about how good this post's test is, but I use amiunique.org to compare browser settings.
Funny thing is, I had to enable scripts on that website in order for the test to work lol
You should include a hyperlink to the actual site in your post.
Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.
IS YOUR BROWSER:
Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? ◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint
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Feels good man.
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I don't know if you posted a link to the actual site (I'm not seeing one, just a screenshot), https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
ye that's the one, I forgot to put the url in the post
Thanks for posting this! I installed privacy badger and modified my user agent as a result of the test. Very helpful insight that I didn’t have before.
somewhat related, is there any way at all to enable high refresh rates while using resistFingerprinting, or something I could use instead of it? this is the only thing keeping me away from resistFingerprinting on Mull and Librewolf.
Ah so that's the reason that Mull is limited to 60 hz. Sorry I have no idea
Any tips for iOS users? I got mid results
maybe brave? I hate it but I can't think of a better solution for IOS.
I feel like Firefox is better. Or onion is probably even better. Set your privacy settings to strict. I use iOS and my results were strong.
Also go into your iOS settings and mess around. Disable all their bullshit. I’m not a super tech savvy person. My brother is in IT, but privacy is super important to me, so I go around, read stuff, turn off a bunch of their “share with” stuff, and their Siri bullshit and everything I can tinker with. There are a lot of iOS settings buried pretty deep in subpages. I’m not sure if the eff is checking those, but I’ve had to go down my list of apps and disable some Siri bullshit.
Sorry I can’t be more specific, like I said, I’m not the tech savvy one. I just use bare bones stuff, disable things that sound fishy. It’s all worked out for me so far lol
Wow nice. Any opinions on how these fingerprinting evaluators compare?
EFF’s Cover Your Tracks:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Am I Unique?:
https://amiunique.org
Sad a pretty stock iPhone that’s blocking via some filterlists and using iCloud Private Relay (a “VPN”) is so detectable! Should be so many browsers appearing similar but there’s always this & that that mean I’m unique.
-my comment a month back & some discussion
I'm completely unique, both AmIUnique and the CreepJS test highlighted my installed fonts and two webcams (one of them is actually a virtual redirect for my primary webcam, since the drivers are DirectShow-based)
Would be interesting to see how my linux laptop performs, tbf it might be unique too considering it's a mbp 2012. I remember running into at least one website I visited on it showing much higher prices compared to when I revisited the same website later from my windows desktop...
What are your browser config and settings? (Extensions, settings, about:config...)
Anyone know if its possible to change the HTTP_ACCEPT header in Firefox on Android? Apparently that alone is enough to uniquely identify me :(
I use "Mull" on android it is a firefox fork and is pretty much arkenfox mobile and more. You can try switching to that
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 7748.22 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.92 bits of identifying information.
Using Arc on iOS.
| Blocking tracking ads? | Yes |
| Blocking invisible trackers? | Yes |
| Protecting you from [fingerprinting] | Partial protection |
pretty typical, not too bad if you aren't protecting your fingerprint with the noscript addon
Is that available on iOS?
I realise my options are limited on this platform.
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