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  1. Re:Great by Wycliffe · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Firefox To Add Tor Browser Anti-Fingerprinting Technique Called Letterboxing (zdnet.com)

    Except there are literally hundreds of additional data points which allow websites to uniquely identify you.

    The point isn't just to identify you as unique but for you to both be unique the first time AND recognizable the next time you come back. This seems like a much easier problem to solve. Just change as many of the settings as you can each time you visit a website. If you had a browser capable of randomly tweaking settings at each page load it should be able to add enough noise that browser fingerprinting would become worthless. As an added bonus, not only would it protect your browser, the noise would add a touch of herd immunity and help other people with stock browsers as well. The goal shouldn't be to lock down a browser so that nothing is leaked but rather to leak so much random crap that it becomes worthless.

  2. Great by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 1 · on Firefox To Add Tor Browser Anti-Fingerprinting Technique Called Letterboxing (zdnet.com)

    Except there are literally hundreds of additional data points which allow websites to uniquely identify you. The best you could do without too much hassle is to run the English version of Google Chrome under the latest release of Windows 10 without any extensions or additional fonts installed. But even that is not enough since you still expose your time zone, WebGL extensions and then there are evercookies, mouse tracking, canvas fingerprinting, etc. etc. etc.

    It surely looks like the WWW was built with tracking in mind. Not intentionally of course.

  3. Re:I think browsers allowing fingerprinting by farble1670 · · Score: 2 · on DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users (betanews.com)

    is something that should be disabled (by default).

    It's not a feature that can be switched off. Fingerprinting works by collecting as many attributes about the host browser as possible. This might be things like your language, browser version, installed plugins, settings, IP address, and many other things. Most of these have potential legit uses, but when combined they build a "fingerprint" of you.

    I suppose you could disable collection of some of the fingerprint components. This is however contradictory to a world where we want web apps to have the same power as "native" apps. Either web apsp are more secure than native apps, or as powerful as native apps. It's not both.

    Cool site that can show the details of your browser fingerprint:
    https://amiunique.org/

  4. Re:No thanks, involves Windows 10 by Anonymice · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com)

    Unless whatever analytics they use simply tracks you by your browser's "fingerprint"...

    https://panopticlick.eff.org/

    https://amiunique.org/

  5. Re:Not to worry... by houghi · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Disables Loophole that Allows Sites To Track Users Via Battery Status (theguardian.com)

    https://amiunique.org/
    So you can be tracked anyway most of thetime. Many will not even bother, but I could see e.g. Google or FB doing this.
    Then just once you log in and you are done for.
    And even if they say they don't, I will not believe them.