I did the tests on fingerprint.com/demo/ and https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and they both said I have a unique fingerprint, even when I enabled privacy.resistFingerprinting to True.
Use Tor Browser. Don’t waste your life on micro-optimisation. You will get a lot more privacy with stuff like getting all your friends on Signal/SimpleX, etc.
You’re absolutely right micro-optimization, I found that I did too much of that in 2022 and 23 and really cut down on that this year, I found that doing so is basically never worth it. I’m not gonna do that with privacy either, I’m focusing on what actions I can take that will make big improvements to my privacy rather than tweak every little thing.
Use Tor.
Do you mean Tor Browser? Because using Tor alone won’t stop fingerprinting.
Both my browser and network level dns blocker blocked the test attacker site from loading but in general there are 2 approaches to this: minimize your fingerprint data points or change them to blend in with the crowd.
I think for the most part selectivly blocking js and cookies will do a lot for you. You can also block the canvas and limit fonts too. I’d also recommend a vpn as they can associate it with your ip too.
Use Librewolf
Do you know if these folks actively develop it or do they just apply patches to the Firefox codebase ?
Like do they just pre configure a bunch of about config settings and the pre installed search or do they harden the binaries at compile time ?
I’ve not kept up with this but I’m curious if there is any real advantage of this over Firefox after it has been configured. If not I would stick with Firefox as it will get security updates quicker by people who know the source code intimately.
Anyway not shitting on anyone’s choices here just curious.
I finally made a Lemmy account just to comment on this 😅
When this option is active, of course your fingerprint is unique because of how it works.
Every time a website fingerprints you with this option turned on, firefox makes sure that the ID is as unique as possible, so no correlation can happen. 😊 Verify this by visiting that site two times and check the hash to make sure it change between the two requests.
EDIT: fingerprint.com probably use Cookies and/or localstorage so the ID is the same when refreshing, but Firefox have protection in place for cross-site tracking and cookie sandboxing, etc (I won’t pretend like I know how everything work), but those protections helps against that type of services from what I recall.
So does Firefox make this more unique or something? I didn’t know this was a thing but I’m interested in privacy and it sound like something I should be looking into.
In essence: It makes it random. (Hence fingerprinting checkers find the ID uniqiue")
Although sometimes you need some features that interfere with it. I use the add-on “Toggle Resist fingerprinting” to easily toggle it off when I want a website to draw canvas (canva.com is a funny example lol) and then toggle it back when I’m done.
Some nice things, but it can interfere with some daily use cases: Timezone is changed to UTC. Canvas shows random data.
Nice rabbit hole read: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
(Its like Wikipedia. You can’t stop clicking on links to find out more xD)
EDIT: fingerprint.com probably use Cookies and/or localstorage so the ID is the same when refreshing, but Firefox have protection in place for cross-site tracking and cookie sandboxing, etc (I won’t pretend like I know how everything work), but those protections helps against that type of services from what I recall.
Tor Browser is the best way.
