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has anyone confirmed google does these? i personally haven't used google in years, dont hold a gmail account or use their services other than youtube which i do

has anyone confirmed google does these? i personally haven't used google in years, dont hold a gmail account or use their services other than youtube which i do on a private firefox tab. while i do have a unique browser fingerprint according to https://coveryourtracks.eff.org https://coveryourtracks.eff.org >Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 327,358 tested in the past 45 days. should i be concerned? now, if i use this same browser on any vpn, if youtube is doing fingerprinting then i am a unique user anyways so any ideas?

tux 6y ago
You should never use same profile for your VPN. You can create seperate profiles to use one for direct access and one only for your VPN connection. I would even recommend using different browser profiles for specific tasks. Like "shopping" for example. Create Firefox Profile: firefox -ProfileManager Use Firefox Profile: firefox --no-remote -private -P profile-name Create & Use Chrome Profile: chromium --incognito --user-data-dir=location/profile-name On top of seperate browser profiles (at least in your VPN profiles), you need to do browser hardening and use something like uBlock/uMatrix to block everything by default. [1] I do not recommend using regular Google Chrome for VPN at all. Use something like Ungoogled-Chrome. [2] or similar security browser instead. Also it is highly recommented if you use Linux/Unix OS, to properly firewall your VPN connection. So for example if your VPN connection suddenly stops working, it will not leak out any data. There is many tutorials on how to do this. I'm sure it is possible to do something similar on Windows too. [1] firefox hardening; https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/ https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/ [2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium [3] chrome hardening; https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

tux 6y ago

You should never use same profile for your VPN. You can create seperate profiles to use one for direct access and one only for your VPN connection. I would even recommend using different browser profiles for specific tasks. Like "shopping" for example. Create Firefox Profile: firefox -ProfileManager Use Firefox Profile: firefox --no-remote -private -P profile-name Create & Use Chrome Profile: chromium --incognito --user-data-dir=location/profile-name On top of seperate browser profiles (at least in your VPN profiles), you need to do browser hardening and use something like uBlock/uMatrix to block everything by default. [1] I do not recommend using regular Google Chrome for VPN at all. Use something like Ungoogled-Chrome. [2] or similar security browser instead. Also it is highly recommented if you use Linux/Unix OS, to properly firewall your VPN connection. So for example if your VPN connection suddenly stops working, it will not leak out any data. There is many tutorials on how to do this. I'm sure it is possible to do something similar on Windows too. [1] firefox hardening; https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/ https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/ [2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium [3] chrome hardening; https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/