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Too many battles to wage for one fairly small organization

• rufugee 11y ago
  Then should the rest of us not step up? Or is it that there's no effective way to combat it without making major changes to browsers we have little control over? At the very least, someone could have a website which listed steps you can take to protect yourself.
  • schoen 11y ago
    You can get some benefits from EFF's Privacy Badger and from Mozilla's Tracking Protection feature. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir... https://www.eff.org/privacybadger https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Both of these tools are focused on cross-site ("third-party") tracking, rather than cross-session tracking by an individual site ("first-party"). Third-party tracking is technically easier to try to detect, and some people regard it as more intrusive. As I mentioned upthread, EFF's own research on browser fingerprinting shows that it's hard to stop all user tracking (because your browser and OS and device might be different enough from others to be unique in a population in ways that could be observable by a remote site). Tor Browser is doing great work on this https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#fingerprinting-linkability https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#finge... and I think they've made concrete progress. (I think the Tor Browser developers might say that the privacy benefits of using their changes without Tor are unclear because you could also so easily be tracked by IP address. But it's possible that some of their changes will find their way into mainline Firefox, at least as options.)