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Nope. If you're using Qubes you are (as far as an ad network is concerned) a young middle to upper class white male with an interest in technology and computer
by superuser2 11y ago
Nope. If you're using Qubes you are (as far as an ad network is concerned) a young middle to upper class white male with an interest in technology and computer security who probably lives near the Bay Area or another tech hub (depending on GeoIP). That's exactly what an advertiser would be tracking you to find out, and you just put it in the user agent string.
The only way to defeat browser fingerprinting is for everyone (or a lot of people including you) to use exactly the same version of the same browser on the same platform on the same device configured the same way. Even the, which browser-device-screen resolution-version cohort you are part of probably says a lot about your demographic.
It's easy to hide in 2560x1440 Macs running latest Chrome under Yosemite. Not so much on Ubuntu Phone in middle America.
- hellbanner 11y agoCouldn't you just use a browser that doesn't send user-agent?
- strmpnk 11y agoThe lack of one itself is a datapoint.
- rdtsc 11y agoYou use a random user agent. I use this one for example: https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
- hundchenkatze 11y agoI do this as well, but there's still plenty of data points available. Have a look here https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- jmnicolas 11y agoIf your browser is in a VM how could they know you're using Qubes ? They're gonna get the Linux version that is used in the VM but that's it.