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Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@programming.dev

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You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain of data that gets sent to each website you load. Maybe you know a thing or two about privacy and decided to pick up a VPN to keep your browsing private. Even then, you’re a lot less private than you expect.

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[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

I have never figured out how to prevent fingerprinting. They pull so much data and basically nothing works if you block it. It's also kind of a catch 22 because if you change the information your device provides too much you become an identifiable outlier.

Maybe someone who knows more can help?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

2 schools of thought on fingerprinting.

One is Tor only and prevent anything, your internet sucks and everything else is exposed.

Second is that every browser and browser extension and IP makes a new fingerprint. So get a VPN and install vanilla Firefox, Floorp, Chromite, Brave, LibreWolf, Mullvad, and 2 others, all with uBlock Origin (not Brave). Do your business associated with your real name in FF, then rotate VPN locations and browsers based on how you feel. Add JShelter and a header blocker to turn on only when you feel like it. You now have 20 different browser fingerprints and only 1 is tied to your name.

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Ahh okay, so kind of sandbox your associations

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