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There are two ways to defeat fingerprinting: 1) Be common: have your data match what others are sending 2) Be unique on every page request: scramble your data
by mikedilger 8y ago
There are two ways to defeat fingerprinting:
1) Be common: have your data match what others are sending
2) Be unique on every page request: scramble your data
Browsers in category (2) are not trackable, even though they appear to be fingerprintable. Each page request is a different fingerprint.
What is unclear from the article is whether the studies mentioned (EFF, INRIA) considered that and tested that. Does anyone know? Because privacy does not require non-unique fingerprints, it just requires untrackability.
- incompatible 8y agoAre there any readily-available browser plugins (or whatever) that implement (2)?
- propogandist 8y agothis is close https://multiloginapp.com/canvasdefender-browser-extension/ https://multiloginapp.com/canvasdefender-browser-extension/
- beagle3 8y agoFirefox has two about:Config settings, one stops canvas fingerprinting, the other notifies. Other settings stop giving out a list of plugins or fonts. And e.g. unlock or umatriz can rotate your user agent. It’s not perfect, but with a few tweaks Firefox is much much harder to fingerprint - though IPv6 tends to undo all of that because many providers assign a prefix per customer which will never change and can be used by anyone to correlate.
- gsnedders 8y agoHow common is the setup those settings put you in, though? Are you more or less unique in that bin?