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Orion Browser (Kagi Product) prevents fingerprinters from running by default. https://help.kagi.com/orion/privacy-and-security/preventing-fingerprinting.html h

• codedokode 10mo ago
  How do they reliably detect fingerprinting? Did they solve the Halting Problem? Sounds fishy.
  • gruez 10mo ago
    >The only efficient protection against fingerprinting is what Orion is doing — preventing any fingerprinter from running in the first place. Orion is the only browser on the market that comes with full first-party and third-party ad and tracking script blocking, built-in by default, making sure invasive fingerprinters never run on the page. sounds like they block "known" fingerprinting scripts and call it a day.
    • 0xy 10mo ago
      This makes you inherently trackable, ironically. No trace is a massive trackable attribute, since almost nobody is untraceable.
      • RamRodification 10mo ago
        Hey look it's that invisible guy again!
    • jorvi 10mo ago
      > Orion is the only browser on the market that comes with full first-party and third-party ad and tracking script blocking I love Kagi, but that is a laughable statement. Brave has been offering ad and fingerprint blocking for years now. The reason why they don't have full first party blocking ("aggressive" mode blocking) on by default is because it tends to break things.
    • nativeit 10mo ago
      This is also covered in the article. I appreciated the analogy they used: You can put on a ski mask when you go to the mall, and it will conceal your identity, but you will also be instantly suspicious to everyone around you, and will likely be asked to leave most of the stores you try to visit.
      • codedokode 10mo ago
        This is only because there are only 0.001% of people using anonymizers. If you are a minority with specific requirements, you are shown the door almost in any case, not only on the Internet.
• ashman5 10mo ago
  Orion browser is also capable of running uBlock Origin (not Lite) on iOS.
• mmooss 10mo ago
  To ask the obvious question: Doesn't blocking fingerprinters itself fingerprint the browser. (Also, what is a 'fingerprinter'? Isn't it something that runs server-side, out of reach of the browser, based on data collected?)
  • h33t-l4x0r 10mo ago
    No it's usually a javascript script that does weird things like drawing strings on an invisible canvas and sends it back to the server. I'm wondering if a browser extension that intercepts those payloads and randomizes them with other people's payloads is what's called for here.