Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Best browser tweaks for privacy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, always wanted to know the absolute best to have the most private (and secure) browser, need tips for android and linux. I think Firefox based browser are the best choice but i'm open to recommendations!! THX

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of information, for me at least. Short of searching for what those mean individually, is there a recommended way to learn more about these? Like how they ultimately effect people or could be used maliciously or effect security or privacy?

I have no usable programming skills and my knowledge in this subject is limited to roughly what I've learned from https://amiunique.org but those two links seem to be on a whole different level.

Maybe better questions to ask would be: How could a layman understand these things better? Is it feasible to learn more without extensive college level classes on programming and/or computer science? Should the average person need to worry, assuming they have nothing more to hide than a less-than-average bank account balance or habitual browsing of adult media which to the best of their knowledge is legal and consensual where they live and who have no social media or social life or ties to political movements, major corporations, news organizations, critical infrastructure or charities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Each are data points that together contribute to your total fingerprint. TZP tells you a lot of these data points, and fails ones that dont match Firefox Resistant Fingerprint masked data. Creepjs does much of the same but without gearing towards Firefox.

Generally fingerprintable things include:

Do not track signal.
Private browsing mode.
Timezone.
Useragent.
Canvas noise.
Installed fonts.
Font sizes.
Browser built-in plugins.
Some extensions.
WebRTC.
Theme.
Cookies.
IP address.
Local IPs (website can execute an ip scan and fingerprint).
Window viewport size.
Full screen mode viewport sizing.
Page/font color settings.
Operating System (impossible to mask because of differences in rendering on platforms).
Browser App name & icon. System TTS synthesis engine.
DOM modification fingerprinting (like that used by many extensions). Mouse speed.
Keyboard behavior.
Stylometric fingerprinting.
And many more.