2w ago

Your browser lets websites track you even without cookies

www.zmescience.com

On the internet, it’s easy to feel anonymous. If you don’t log in, no one can see who you are; you can even switch to incognito mode. The more savvy user would say that’s not really enough. To be anonymous, you need to clear your cookies and use a privacy-oriented browser.
But new research shows even that doesn’t work anymore. Websites are still tracking you — silently, persistently, and without your consent — by reading your browser’s unique “fingerprint.”

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Lee Duna @lemmy.nz

2w ago

Your browser lets websites track you even without cookies

www.zmescience.com /feature-post/technology-articles/your-browser-lets-websites-track-you-even-without-cookies/

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Privacy is one of those things that has to be collective to be effective. It doesn't matter if you put on a hat, a cloak, shades, and a fake beard when you go out of your home if you are the only one doing it, they'll just identify you as the person in a cloak, hat, shades, and a fake beard.
No one follows the rules
This is why ordinary people should feel a duty to use adblockers, poison AI/data collection whenever possible, and to use alternative methods of protecting privacy (i.e. pirate rather than using streaming services).
If we can't be respected, then we should give no respect to organizations and governments who ignore privacy as a basic human right.
Librewold + ublock origin + canvas blocker in help to u
- i thought librewolf already has some canvas fingerprint blocking?
  
  It does. You may need to enable it.
  
  Yes it does ,but canvas blocker doing much more advance blocking also u can change a lot parameters in there for faking
- Plus Mullvad VPN.
- Thanks, maybe CanvasBlocker will be less breaking than JShelter. By the way, I recommend AdNauseam, which is a uBlock Origin fork that clicks the ads before hiding them (and without loading their results, so it takes no extra data) to confound advertisers with garbage data.
- NoScript
  It will be annoying to use AT FIRST. One you have it set up for all your sites it won't be so bad.
  
  No script cannot protect u from on websites which require js for work and thus it cannot protect u from creepjs things and so it required to spoof everything from resolution to os fingerprints
- Tor Browser. You just described part of a fingerprint, tbb is a more common print.
  
  I don't trust for browser if honestly https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-145/
  Before they were spoofing user agent now not hidding
The most effective single mitigation against browser fingerprinting is to disable scripts. Unfortunately, many sites these days are needlessly built to be unusable without scripts.
The next best thing is to disable scripts on most sites, use the important others with uBlock Origin, and ask site owners to make script-free functionality a priority in their development plans.
- Now more than ever I feel justified having used NoScript for all these years.

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