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.
I’m unique :) this ain’t great
…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.
If you have canvas randomisation turned on (firefox) you’ll always be unique but also not traceable between sessions.
How do you turn on canvas randomisation in Firefox? I can’t seem to find anything about it.
I found this in about:config, defaults to true apparently: privacy.resistFingerprinting.randomDataOnCanvasExtract
But you have to enable privacy.resistFingerprinting for it to work first. I enabled that and now the EFF test says “randomized” for the hashes but also Lemmy went from dark to light theme somehow.
privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks a lot more than just themes. Many of the weird problems reported in Firefox (and forks) are just from enabling it.
It has some pros but also TONNES of cons. Everything from a completely blank page to wrong timestamps to poor textures and so much more. Sometimes you will be flagged as a bot and prompted with literally infinite puzzles, thus effectively banning you from a website.
Some of these problems get fixed but new ones also get born. I personally use it but I also expect breakage and worse performance.
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”
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,614 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.49 bits of identifying information."
Chat am I cooked?
Am I wrong to assume trying to blend in is a worse and contradictory strategy than trying to actively protect yourself from tracking?
If you want to not be unique, use default setting chrome without adblock. Your browser will look just like anybody else’s, but they will literally know who you are.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, you lock everything down and spike as a very special browser and… that’s all they know.
Not what I meant: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.3-Overrides-[To-RFP-or-Not]#-fingerprinting
"If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. Here is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a 99.24% unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses).
Changing a few prefs from default is not going to make you “more unique” - there is no such thing."
Basically making yourself less unique is impossible so there’s no sensible tradeoff to be made (other than in the context of Tor and Mullvad Browser).
