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What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks?(sh.itjust.works)

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On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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I’m unique :) this ain’t great

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kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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its ok if your fingerprint changes on every browser startup

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Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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…as long as you are blocking tracking cookies, and aren’t on a session with a website that’s tracking you.

Otherwise, you just have a nice unique hash in your cookies. A password manager could help here.

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broken_chatbot@lemmy.world
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A password manager? Could you explain why?

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LambdaRX@sh.itjust.worksOP
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After disabling extension “I still don’t care about cookies” on Librewolf, I went from 17.48 bits unique fingerprint to 16.48 nearly unique one.

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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With browser settings that actually let me use the internet in a way that’s not overly cumbersome and annoying, I get 16bits or something and a “nearly unique fingerprint”

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themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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Block any and all ads, then it doesn’t matter that they have your data if they can’t make money off of it (they still will do that by creating data aggregates but you can’t control that)

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Albbi@lemmy.ca
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I misread the title as “Cover your taxes” and got really excited to earn about tax avoidance tips. Legal ones obviously.

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ripley@lemmy.world
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It seems like the characteristics of my Android tablet doom me here - I was unique even using Chrome.

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