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  • @RandomPancakeEnglish
    30•11 months ago

    Browser fingerprinting is nasty and easy. There are ways to push back but it’s still awful.

    • @norouteEnglish
      33•11 months ago

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        • @norouteEnglish
          2•11 months ago

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      • @RandomPancakeEnglish
        10•11 months ago

        I know people are passionate about their love / hated of Brave, but it along with LibreWolf (and Firefox) all offer strong fingerprinting protection out of the box. With Firefox, just make sure you add uBlock Origin.

      • @jayboneEnglish
        -1•11 months ago

        Wait Firefox sends fingerprint info?

        Why is there not an open source browser that doesn’t send this shit?

        • @[email protected]English
          9•11 months ago

          Firefox does not “send” it, fingerprinting is done by tagging your hardware configuration from various values and create a unique key from that - independent of being logged in or any cookies - which can be used to track you. Things like browser & device user agent, browser window size, feature support (to determine browser version), etc. All of which are passively gathered by anything you could send a request to. There are ways to reduce this that Firefox and others do (such as reducing unique values in user agent, etc) but they’re not opting in to some privacy invading reporting mechanism.

          • @jayboneEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            But the “various values” are sent, like you mention user agent, etc. I wonder if it makes sense to have a browser that doesn’t send all of that.