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Anti fingerprinting is nice but if you get served ads based on your IP address you're going to need more than just a browser to escape tracking based advertisin
by jeroenhd 1y ago
Anti fingerprinting is nice but if you get served ads based on your IP address you're going to need more than just a browser to escape tracking based advertising. Adblockers aren't good enough when websites you visit use first-party servers to forward data back to ad networks.
- akimbostrawman 1y agoMullvad Browser comes with the fingerprint protection of the tor browser and a VPN addon but you do need to pay for there vpn.
- jazzypants 1y agoServing ads based on IP seems foolish when very, very few people have a static IP. I'm sure that a healthy minority of folks on HN do, but we're hardly representative of the general population.
- pixl97 1y agoYour IP is a lot more static than you give it credit for. It's not like the dialup era where you get a new IP each time. For example I have a dynamic IP on my cable modem, but it might as well be static as it only changes after there is a long term power outage. Also, it's likely if you're on a home connection most often, then you only have a limited pool of 32k or so IPs, which dramatically lowers the bits of information needed to identify you.
- immibis 1y agoEuropean ISPs (at least some) change your IP every day, including IPv6, unless you opt out from the router's configuration page, as a privacy feature. Apparently tracking data of Europeans has a much higher market price.