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The article describes "Fingerprinting as a Service. Some choice quotes: It doesn’t matter if you are using a VPN or Private Browsing mode, they can accurately identify you. Also note that VPNs does not help with fingerprinting. They only masks IP address.
right. but using a VPN plus a fresh VM running Ubuntu can mostly do the trick. In a pinch, just keep a few different versions of various browsers around when you plan to surf a site that you don't want associated with you. Or change your screen resolution or turn off your fonts. My point was that fingerprinting is much more practical and useful as a positive form of identity verification than it is as a tracking devi…
And as for this
> using a VPN plus a fresh VM running Ubuntu can mostly do the trick. In a pinch, just keep a few different versions of various browsers around when you plan to surf a site that you don't want associated with you. Or change your screen resolution or turn off your fonts
How do you plan to do all that on your mobile device for example? Fingerpirinting is a problem exactly like invasive tracking is a problem.
Why is this being fought with technical measures (which are ineffective and cripple the web as a platform) instead of legal consumer law where you can easily fine and punish companies that do the fingerprinting? EDIT: Note that you can do BOTH - but one without the other is just a game of whack-a-mole.
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... on a new computer, each time ordered from a different brand and reseller, paid with a unique type of cryptocurrency and delivered each time to a new dead drop in a different country.
I tried live boot of ubuntu. Every time it can detect accurately. Looks like the whole privacy thing is OVER. Unless lawmakers do something - (i.e) not going to happen! Atleast they can use this to prevent reCaptcha - and make passwords disappear!
Machine-ID in /etc being one, but there's various other items that can be used in the same way from d-bus activation, and something like 20 different other places, another large number in snap.
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It’s a double edged sword you need to walk the edge of. Almost everything they use to fingerprint you has a fully legitimate use case which is why it was added. The more you do to prevent fingerprinting the more you hobble the web as a platform. A lot of restrictions that got placed on the canvas tag to help prevent fingerprinting for instance really limited its functionality. In my opinion a workable solution would…
Well, we could fingerprint the fingerprint detection code ...
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The article describes "Fingerprinting as a Service. Some choice quotes: It doesn’t matter if you are using a VPN or Private Browsing mode, they can accurately identify you. Also note that VPNs does not help with fingerprinting. They only masks IP address.
right. but using a VPN plus a fresh VM running Ubuntu can mostly do the trick. In a pinch, just keep a few different versions of various browsers around when you plan to surf a site that you don't want associated with you. Or change your screen resolution or turn off your fonts. My point was that fingerprinting is much more practical and useful as a positive form of identity verification than it is as a tracking devi…
Tracking should be limited with legal means.
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It would be a lot of work to make it mimic a common profile though.
That work was probably done once, years ago. Might need a few string tweaks every few years, which could be automated.
I use the usual adblocker UBlock and: * https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/ which prevents fingerprinting via Canvas elements, additionally warns you if a site does it. There are more sites out there than you would assume. Some stupid blogs even. * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... This splits your tabs into different categories, each with their own cookie storage.…
But that's merely because of the canvasblocker (or something else you have), because just separate containers doesn't cut it?
For anyone who this is news to: This is why I always call the "I don't care about cookies" extension an adtech submarine, because it deceives you into thinking it’s all about cookies, when the permission you give automatically in many cases are about tracking, so using that extension will often have you consent that fingerprinting you and creating a profile based on that is perfectly fine.