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Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by j_s » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

I use the http://qupzilla.com/ browser because each private window is a new session, no cookies are shared between windows.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by matejn » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #49

diegorbaquero wrote: post #16

In Chrome: Settings > Privacy > Content Settings > Tick 'Block third-party cookies and site data' Also set 'Send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic' And install uBlock Origin, ofc.

3rd party cookies should be disabled by default in all browsers. It significantly improves your privacy with minimal impact. After many years of blocking 3rd party cookies the only thing that's broken for me is my bank's bill pay system, which is an iframe of a 3rd party service.

I whitelisted bandcamp because some bands use custom domains.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by jlarocco » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

whamlastxmas wrote: post #75

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

Slightly easier way is to use the Disconnect/Privacy Badger extensions, along with uBlock Origin. It does a lot to prevent cookies from leaking across sites.

Yeah. I use those, and this site doesn't do anything AFAICT.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by morinted » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

Nifty, with Firefox containers each one shows the "mode" I'm in. Hackernews for default container, personal has my Google world + open source + Dropbox, work has my work's Gmail world, and shopping has my Amazon account. It's like a verification that containers work!

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

frederikvs wrote: post #28

maket wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing from other comments that it checks logins on a wide variety of sites, some of which may be NSFW. Some employers might not like you accessing NSFW sites.

correct, among others it checks youporn. For this check it needs send a request to that domain, which may get flagged in certain corporate IT systems.

That would be a pretty crappy check then. After all any webpage could embed that favicon.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by staticelf » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

I also use seperate browsers for some stuff, but these two addons is a must:

https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/self-destruct... together with https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by dwiel » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

whamlastxmas wrote: post #75

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

Slightly easier way is to use the Disconnect/Privacy Badger extensions, along with uBlock Origin. It does a lot to prevent cookies from leaking across sites.

I use all 3 of those and a few others, yet it still detected quite a few sites I was logged in to.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by Bartweiss » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:55 PM UTC

zerognowl wrote: post #39

This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona. Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web…

At risk of being depressing, it's worth knowing that a dedicated profiler can reconcile accounts across all of the protections you've mentioned - not just as a targeted attack, but algorithmically.

There are a lot of fingerprinting tricks which transcend cookie restrictions and user profiles. The battery percent/value one will reconcile all accounts on one device (as will several other like fonts). If you log into one bucket on multiple devices, it becomes possible to traverse devices and reconcile one-device profiles via the shared profile. If I were truly paranoid, I would only trust "separation" if it involved a clean account on a clean device on a clean network.

None of which is to say that you shouldn't do this! I do lots of privacy things which aren't bulletproof, and I think other people should also. Fighting common tracking structures is still progress, and tools like bucketing and Privacy Badger are great ways to do this.

It's just also worth noting that dedicated profiling will break all but the most pathological defensive measures.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by dawnerd » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

alexholehouse wrote: post #108

So, interestingly, it had me logged in to reddit, but I don't actually have a reddit account at all. Thoughts?

Same here actually. I haven't logged into my reddit account in like two years now. Also don't have any cookies from reddit so I dunno. The site does show me logged out of everything else so I think it's either broken or something else.

Re: Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

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Post by Bartweiss » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

mdesq wrote: post #61

Using uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger defaults, it only showed me as logged into Hacker News.

Privacy Badger alone missed Reddit and the Google cluster, but picked off all of my other active logins. I'll be adding uBlock to see what it does with the survivors.