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It's scary how much information browsers give out for free, I wish I could use a browser that completely blocks and limits fingerprinting but nowadays I can bar
by syx 3y ago
It's scary how much information browsers give out for free, I wish I could use a browser that completely blocks and limits fingerprinting but nowadays I can barely watch YouTube or completing an online purchase flow with ad-blockers enabled
- movedx 3y agoI know what you mean. One thing I'm trying to get into the habit of doing is using yt-dlp to pull videos from YouTube so I don't have to use their website, and I have _YT premium_ ffs -- it's just nasty.
- jerbear4328 3y agoTor Browser is really good at this. It was designed for the purpose of limiting tracking, both by IP and fingerprinting. Every user that downloads and runs Tor Browser looks perfectly identical to any website they visit, and hitting the button to reset your identity truly does that. Downside is it's really slow compared to just using your network directly, but that's the price you have to pay for privacy atm.
- BramLovesYams 3y agoOne thing that is important in keeping this "identical" browser appearance to potential trackers is not changing the size of the browser window once you open Tor.
- themoonisachees 3y agoHasn't this largely been fixed? I remember reading about how the tor browser would fake its window size to be from a predefined set that's somewhat near your current window size
- crtasm 3y agoThat's correct, if you resize the window you can see the page area switching between the predefined sizes.
- jerbear4328 3y agoYeah, it does a pretty good job at letterboxing. It doesn't make Tor perfect, even if you wipe your identity, if you have a less common predefined size and go back to the same URL, they can probably track you as the same user, especially if combined with things like canvas fingerprinting, but if you set Tor to the safest setting, which disables JavaScript, you are completely safe.