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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by jeffhykin@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Fingerprinting isn't always possible to defeat, and its not always possible to avoid making accounts (work and school accounts)

However, it should be possible to fill up tracked data with meaningless garbage and reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. Ex: a bot that browses random products on amazon to reduce profiling accuracy.

Do you guys know of any tools that do this? Anything from browser extensions to command line scripts, to anonymous group-accounts.

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just FYI You would have to be using the same exact browser configuration you normally browse with, otherwise the fingerprint it has will be different.

[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, cookies, account logins, and other stuff make it hard too. Ex: randomly exploring gmail emails at different times of day, but not actually marking emails as read.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right, even the most secure/private browser cannot help opsec failures... if only one person visits the same website(s) at the same time every day, you are not anonymous. But we all must define our own threat models and apply what's realistic for us individually.

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