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

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Post by mdesq » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by diegorbaquero » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:43 PM UTC

Retr0spectrum wrote: post #35

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.

Personally, I don't set the DNT header. You have no way of knowing if any sites are actually going to comply, and it actually provides an extra datapoint to fingerprint you with.

There are 100s of ways to fingerprint the browser and more exactly. I think is better to set it for the few that comply.

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

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Post by mark_l_watson » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:44 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…

Great advice. I use Chrome for Google, twitter, and Facebook, and another browser for everything else. This isn't quite as good as your approach, but gives me some web platforms isolation.

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

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Post by thescriptkiddie » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #2

Apparently. I am not logged into anything. I tried it on Opera (along with the internal ad blocker) and I'm not using Privacy Badger.

This only works of you have third party cookies turned on. I'm not sure about Opera, but I'm pretty sure Firefox has them off by default.

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

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Post by Retr0spectrum » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:50 PM UTC

diegorbaquero wrote: post #62

Retr0spectrum wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I don't set the DNT header. You have no way of knowing if any sites are actually going to comply, and it actually provides an extra datapoint to fingerprint you with.

There are 100s of ways to fingerprint the browser and more exactly. I think is better to set it for the few that comply.

That's true, but they usually require running javascript etc.

Looking at the request headers is the simplest way of fingerprinting.

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

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Post by Retr0spectrum » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:51 PM UTC

posterboy wrote: post #58

sp332 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But isn't it better to at least ask instead of not asking at all?

Its pretty obvious the default should be the opposite to avoid a race condition like that.

Are you suggesting a "please track me" header? Nobody would ever use it...

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

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Post by GirlsCanCode » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

to3m wrote: post #57

spacemanmatt wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was horrified to find I'm logged in to FB with my 'common' cookie jar. At least that explains the recently increased accuracy of its targeted ads.

I only ever log in to Facebook in private browsing mode.

Facebook is among the worst for stalking you. For the once a quarter I log into Facebook (mostly for an occasional friendly note to highschool/college friends from 30+ years ago), I use a private session. And I have a plugin that blocks facebook tracking.

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

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Post by gtirloni » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

cs0 wrote: post #10

Nice, so now by using this I have an NSFW site logged in my workplace's DNS log. Be careful if your employer checks such things.

If your workplace is creating any trouble for you because of a few unique hits to NSFW websites, better reevaluate where you work.

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

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Post by jschwartzi » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

Infinitesimus wrote: post #17

SaAtomic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

huh. I didn't think of that.. that's kinda harsh.

Yep I also clicked first. It might need an "NSFW" tag in the title to warn other users. (Let's see how long it takes for Corporate IT to come yell at us)

Well, on the bright side I'll be able to see if our IT guy actually logs this stuff.

It'll be fun explaining it.

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

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Post by b101010 » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 3:09 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…

For anyone wanting to do this, the profile and no-remote command line options[1] may be useful if you want to create shortcuts to launch specific profiles

You might also want to consider using a different theme[2] in each profile to help avoid mixing them up if your running multiple instances simultaneously.

My initial use case for this was adding the lets encrypt staging certificate authority to the trusted root certificate authorities in a profile only used for testing.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/