How can we avoid browser fingerprinting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Compare to cookies. I use two extensions. The first accepts all cookies to bypass cookie banners. The second deletes all non white listed cookies on closing the page. This works well for me since I seldom have more than 20 pages open, and I constantly close them.

Is there a way to avoid browser fingerprinting like this at all (with potential qol benefits) or am I extra screwed because I do things like this in addition to running Linux on a computer I built?

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Couple interesting resources:

These mostly just tell you how fucked you are though. The latter has some resources about how to deal with it, but it's not that useful. The former is really good at breaking down the datapoints that are fucking you.

A lot of this stuff isn't really something I'd want to remove, too. Like javascript knowing the viewport size or my timezone. Frustrating.

Edit to add: Found this as well which has some good info for configuring Firefox. Some things seem extreme to me, but it's quite informative. https://avoidthehack.com/firefox-privacy-config

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

I use LibreWolf which implements pretty tough fingerprint mitigation... but I end up disabling a lot of it because it breaks a lot of sites.

[-] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 1 points 1 week ago

I use LibreWolf and then turn a fair chunk of the mitigations off. It’d be nice to have all the mitigations on, but I started to tire of every site not being dark mode at night, or the time being incorrect, or the JavaScript on the site breaking, or various other things when I don’t really care about the tracking.

It was also difficult or annoying to turn these mitigations off on a site-by-site basis for known-okay or trusted sites. Maybe someone could educate me, here though.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

I use ungoogled-chromium in tandem with LibreWolf, the former for sites broken by the latter.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why don't you use DarkReader if I may ask?

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