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The more time passes, the more comfortable I feel about mostly interacting with the internet from a Qubes box, in a disposable Whonix/Tor VM, with Javascript di

by Syonyk 3y ago

The more time passes, the more comfortable I feel about mostly interacting with the internet from a Qubes box, in a disposable Whonix/Tor VM, with Javascript disabled... This is just gross. I mean, not surprising. But appalling in so many ways that it's even possible. If you're not familiar with fingerprint.com, they do "deep user profiling" - think "maintaining a constant user ID across computers, browsers, OSes, etc." They have a demo on the main page that's a little bit creepy in how good it is.

nop_slide 3y ago
Wow it totally recognizes my same device across different VPN IPs. Creepy indeed
- nier 3y ago
  In my tests it only recognizes the same browser. I’m a different person when using different browsers. I noticed that I can still be correctly fingerprinted after resetting the browser or using a private window.
  - Ycdr4thfdd 3y ago
    Using Firefox (on a Linux laptop) with resistfingerpriting=true or Mull (on an Android) with its default settings, I'm able to get assigned a new fingerprint whenever I clear cookies or use a new Incognito session. I haven't tested it, but presumably they also wouldn't be able to track me between domains, even without clearing cookies.
    - Affric 3y ago
      So it gets me on MacOS with safari, lynx, and firefox with strict anti-tracking on. Tor works for blocking it. All in all they have created a creepy wee tool.
      - jonnycomputer 3y ago
        On MacOS, on Firefox, resistFingerprint=1 and clearing out recent history, or going in incognito mode, (cookies, cache, etc.) defeats the fingerprint. A little disappointed that Privacy Badger didn't seem to make any difference. Was active the whole time.
        utsuro 3y ago
        Doesn’t seem to be the case on iOS unfortunately which is really creepy. Still get tracked regardless of Cookie & Cache Reset/VPN/Private Browsing with Safari
smallpipe 3y ago
Eww this is gross. I'm impressed it manages to do it on a stock iphone in incognito with two different IPs, surely it must look like any other iphone Edit: ublock origin filter, which breaks the demo: ||fpjscdn.net

by Syonyk 3y ago

nop_slide 3y ago

Wow it totally recognizes my same device across different VPN IPs. Creepy indeed

nier 3y ago
In my tests it only recognizes the same browser. I’m a different person when using different browsers. I noticed that I can still be correctly fingerprinted after resetting the browser or using a private window.
- Ycdr4thfdd 3y ago
  Using Firefox (on a Linux laptop) with resistfingerpriting=true or Mull (on an Android) with its default settings, I'm able to get assigned a new fingerprint whenever I clear cookies or use a new Incognito session. I haven't tested it, but presumably they also wouldn't be able to track me between domains, even without clearing cookies.
  - Affric 3y ago
    So it gets me on MacOS with safari, lynx, and firefox with strict anti-tracking on. Tor works for blocking it. All in all they have created a creepy wee tool.
    - jonnycomputer 3y ago
      On MacOS, on Firefox, resistFingerprint=1 and clearing out recent history, or going in incognito mode, (cookies, cache, etc.) defeats the fingerprint. A little disappointed that Privacy Badger didn't seem to make any difference. Was active the whole time.
      - utsuro 3y ago
        Doesn’t seem to be the case on iOS unfortunately which is really creepy. Still get tracked regardless of Cookie & Cache Reset/VPN/Private Browsing with Safari

smallpipe 3y ago

Eww this is gross. I'm impressed it manages to do it on a stock iphone in incognito with two different IPs, surely it must look like any other iphone Edit: ublock origin filter, which breaks the demo: ||fpjscdn.net