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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?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Tor browser is really the only way around it

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I've been thinking about that, but I haven't had the executive function to sit down and actually commit to it

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