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Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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Re: Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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Even with all those tools, your browser is still likely uniquely identifiable: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

I always go to that site and leave again scared.

Is there any FF/Crome add-on that simulates the most frequent configuration setup? There got to be some out-of-the-box setups, that lets one fade into the mist of computer illiterates.

Re: Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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post #8

Even with all these tools the oldest form of tracking will still work perfectly, your IP address. Use a VPN as well as these tools if you really take your privacy seriously.

Wouldn't Tor be better? With a VPN, consecutive requests will still come from the same address, making it possible for a malicious network to track that address across sites. Tor can be configured to use a different exit node per host, or even per request.

Re: Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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post #8

Even with all these tools the oldest form of tracking will still work perfectly, your IP address. Use a VPN as well as these tools if you really take your privacy seriously.

Wouldn't Tor be better? With a VPN, consecutive requests will still come from the same address, making it possible for a malicious network to track that address across sites. Tor can be configured to use a different exit node per host, or even per request.

A VPN that shares IPs between many users won't have that issue. You'll have hundreds of users using an IP at the same time as well as thousands over the period of a day.

Re: Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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post #11
post #7

Even with all those tools, your browser is still likely uniquely identifiable: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

I always go to that site and leave again scared. Is there any FF/Crome add-on that simulates the most frequent configuration setup? There got to be some out-of-the-box setups, that lets one fade into the mist of computer illiterates.

You might want to try an FF add-on called "User Agent Switcher". Visit panopticlick with that and you can somewhat tailor your fingerprint. Try IE8.

Re: Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

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post #11
post #7

Even with all those tools, your browser is still likely uniquely identifiable: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

I always go to that site and leave again scared. Is there any FF/Crome add-on that simulates the most frequent configuration setup? There got to be some out-of-the-box setups, that lets one fade into the mist of computer illiterates.

There isn't an add-on, else it would be in that list. But we do got TOR Browser, which is optimized to be untrackable, out-of-the-box, with the standard configuration. Even when using it outside the TOR network, you are better off than with all of these add-ons (mostly because of browser fingerprinting that the OP's suggested configuration is succeptible to).

Beware though that not all sites will work with TOR browser out of the box (because of noscript blocking js), but it is fairly easy to whitelist the js code you need to make them functional.

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