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Amusingly so far my privacy has been best protected by Mobile Safari on a popular iPhone model on the latest OS version: "Within our dataset of several million

Amusingly so far my privacy has been best protected by Mobile Safari on a popular iPhone model on the latest OS version: "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 857,908 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours." As it doesn't allow for plugins, my fingerprint should (cookies aside) match that of any other <popular device> user. So maybe the solution here is coming up with a 'secure browse' profile that every browser reports the same fake fingerprint. Security in numbers.

sliverstorm 14y ago
Well, some pieces of information, it can be useful to provide to the server. But, yes, standardizing or even dropping certain fields seems like a nice first step.
chimeracoder 14y ago
> So maybe the solution here is coming up with a 'secure browse' profile that every browser reports the same fake fingerprint. There already is: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en This also has the advantage that no other solution has: it completely hides your location as well, whereas even with a "standard" browser, your IP address + time zone alone can do a lot to identify you.
- zalew 14y ago
  even the tor bundle requires some additional steps for increased privacy http://dpaste.org/hAyZG/ http://dpaste.org/hAyZG/
  - russgray 14y ago
    Many of those options are now set by default in Tor Browser.
    - zalew 14y ago
      Last time I checked they were not.
      - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
        I just checked now - many are but certainly not all. There are a couple of things that probably affect practicality a lot, like referer sending.