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Yes, but it takes more than removing most of the identifying information. The trick is not to remove information, but to poison it. For example, Panopticlick
by jamesbritt 14y ago
Yes, but it takes more than removing most of the identifying information.
The trick is not to remove information, but to poison it.
For example, Panopticlick sees that I have dozens of "system fonts", enough to stand out. I want my browser to lie about the fonts I have, based on settings I choose.
There are many details about my browser and system that are irrelevant to what most sites need to do so lying about them should not interfere with viewing a site.
- mrgreenfur 14y agoThis is a great point. I totally agree, if you adjust simple things on each visit, then you can use their extra bits of identification against them, in a very obscure way, without limiting the actual checks of functionality that the sites use.
- luchs 14y agoThese system fonts are detected through Flash/Java. Disabling these will fix this.
- jamesbritt 14y agoI don't want to provide less, but still accurate, data, I want to introduce suspect data. The end result should be that anyone collecting data on me without my consent should have no idea which of it are accurate such that all of it becomes useless.