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Here's what I've just done - * Cleared all cookies for Facebook and Google * Created a new container called "No tracking" * Set facebook, gmail, analytics, y

Here's what I've just done - * Cleared all cookies for Facebook and Google * Created a new container called "No tracking" * Set facebook, gmail, analytics, youtube and all google services other than Search to always open in "No tracking" Now in theory Facebook and Google can't track me across the web (at least not in a way that it's linked to my real identity), and I don't have to do anything to maintain this. Anybody see any faults in my logic?

Sujan 9y ago
Yes: IP address.
- y4mi 9y ago
  and so many more datapoints such as screen & window resolution/size, installed plugins… even if you're splitting your browsing between sessions manually, they still only need to match them once.
lucideer 9y ago
What Sujan said (IP address), and also: - Storing visits across the web on different sites that use 3rd-party Google/Facebook-hosted services against a shadow session. Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Web Fonts, Google CDN / JSON APIs, share buttons. - I presume you don't login with Facebook / Google on any websites? If you do, that would conclusively link the aforementioned shadow session with your actual account. - Also, there are integrated browser services calling home to Google. Check about:config?filter=google --- Edit: For an extra step to mitigate some of the above: Install either uBlock Origin or uMatrix and painstakingly block all of the above-mentioned 3rd-party origins: analytics, web fonts, share URLs, login APIs, CDNs and JSON APIs. Blocking the last two will break some websites - e.g. Stackoverflow - but you can further mitigate this breakage by installing the Decentraleyes extension.
acqq 9y ago
The cookies. If I understand correctly the discussion, people here observe that e.g. Facebook cookies from your example are saved also outside of "No tracking" "container."
fghtr 9y ago
Check out this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/.

Sujan 9y ago

Yes: IP address.

y4mi 9y ago
and so many more datapoints such as screen & window resolution/size, installed plugins… even if you're splitting your browsing between sessions manually, they still only need to match them once.

lucideer 9y ago

What Sujan said (IP address), and also: - Storing visits across the web on different sites that use 3rd-party Google/Facebook-hosted services against a shadow session. Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Web Fonts, Google CDN / JSON APIs, share buttons. - I presume you don't login with Facebook / Google on any websites? If you do, that would conclusively link the aforementioned shadow session with your actual account. - Also, there are integrated browser services calling home to Google. Check about:config?filter=google --- Edit: For an extra step to mitigate some of the above: Install either uBlock Origin or uMatrix and painstakingly block all of the above-mentioned 3rd-party origins: analytics, web fonts, share URLs, login APIs, CDNs and JSON APIs. Blocking the last two will break some websites - e.g. Stackoverflow - but you can further mitigate this breakage by installing the Decentraleyes extension.

acqq 9y ago

The cookies. If I understand correctly the discussion, people here observe that e.g. Facebook cookies from your example are saved also outside of "No tracking" "container."

fghtr 9y ago

Check out this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/.