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Private browsing is equivalent to creating an ephemeral browser profile everytime. It might get rid of more browser storage, but for how tracking works now-a-d
by 1718627440 1y ago
Private browsing is equivalent to creating an ephemeral browser profile everytime. It might get rid of more browser storage, but for how tracking works now-a-days, it is useless. It is only for what you want to store on your disk, not for how you want to be seen to remotes.
- nomel 1y agoI'll admit I may have fallen for "private" browser marketing. Is this representative to current methods? https://coveryourtracks.eff.org https://coveryourtracks.eff.org I assume a subset of these bits could be used, meaning the "unique" or not claim of this test probably doesn't reflect if you can be tracked. I also assume that a VPN would help tremendously. For that test, as is, I get "unique" every refresh when using Brave Browser. With Safari and Chrome, I get a fail an subsequent sessions.
- 1718627440 1y ago> I'll admit I may have fallen for "private" browser marketing. The private claim isn't wrong, the threat model is just your spouse seeing that you watched porn and not at all about the remote party.
- 1718627440 1y ago> https://coveryourtracks.eff.org https://coveryourtracks.eff.org Platform Linux x86_64 One in x browsers have this value: 5.73 What? They just claim Linux has a marketshare of ~20%?
- nomel 1y agoFor all of these values, I think they're going purely by bits rather than occurrences observed or market share.
- morshu9001 1y agoIt's still the easiest way to track users. If it were useless, Google wouldn't be so opposed to blocking 3P cookies in Chrome.