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I'm a babe in the woods, but I had no idea that I was broadcasting my list of installed system fonts and browser plugins. But it seems to me that this kind of

I'm a babe in the woods, but I had no idea that I was broadcasting my list of installed system fonts and browser plugins. But it seems to me that this kind of fingerprinting would be pretty easy to defeat if people new it was happening and wanted to defeat it. Something like panoticlick could give advic on fonts and plugins to add to lose yourself in the herd.

logn 12y ago
CSS media queries give away your font list (and screen dimensions). Tor Browser modified some internal code in Firefox to protect against this. Panopticlick is nice but it's not that advanced. (Much) more info: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
plausibility 12y ago
That's the point of Chameleon[1]. I've got it installed, and the issue is a lot of websites assume "oh, they don't have $plugin (e.g., Flash) installed", and don't fallback to something reasonable. So there are edge cases where you'd have to disable it. Otherwise, it's pretty effective. [1] https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon
bhayden 12y ago
Uninstall Flash and Java (or disable browser use) and disable your browser reporting plugins (a single option change in FF) and you're pretty anonymous. Block JavaScript for untrusted sites and you're even better. Disconnect and Adblock even better.