https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
You should include a hyperlink to the actual site in your post.
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how did you reduce your fingerprinting ?
In my experience, you have thee choices. You can use NoScript and avoid enabling domains required for fingerprinting, you can turn on privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config, or instead of focusing on not being fingerprinted, focus on guaranteeing your fingerprint will keep changing.
I turned privacy.resistFingerprinting to true and now get an absolutely unique fingerprint on the tool
That might be because it'll be new every time.
Edit: I haven't done my homework about how good this post's test is, but I use amiunique.org to compare browser settings.
Be aware that any sites using HTML5 Canvas will probably be broken now. It breaks some other niche things too that may not be obviously related, so just keep that in mind if any site starts acting up.
Funny thing is, I had to enable scripts on that website in order for the test to work lol
you can o all 3 too >:3
I use an addon called Chameleon that creates a random user agent that changes periodically.
similar, i used Random User Agent, it shows that i have a unique finger print... but the user agent of that fingerprint is not 'my' user agent, so in 30 mintutes i would appear as a different fingerprint
blocking javascript using noscript
Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.
Is your browser:
Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 178,285 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.44 bits of identifying information.
Firefox/Windows 11/Privacy Badger/uBlock Origin
very hard to circumvate fingerprinting, I use noscript for that
What are your settings for noscript? This test won't complete after installing it.
You have to enable the scripts for the page and leave everything else blocked
Doesn't work.
It's a bit of manual work. Trial and error with just first party scripts, then add specific capabilities to scripts one-by-one
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I got almost the exact same result using DDG on a cheap android phone. Within .1 bits of identifying info.
I get 17.45 on an iPad Pro. This is with all extensions disabled and my adblocker off. They say I am unique in the past 45 days. Looking through the info I don’t see how this works. Could it be that no one else has tested with an iPad Pro? It’s not like the hardware in this model is different from a similar one. You really just cannot meddle with it. It’s a fairly locked down ecosystem.
If I took an iPad, reset it and ran the test. Then reset it and ran the test again, would both be unique?
I don't know if you posted a link to the actual site (I'm not seeing one, just a screenshot), https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
ye that's the one, I forgot to put the url in the post
Thanks for posting this! I installed privacy badger and modified my user agent as a result of the test. Very helpful insight that I didn’t have before.
privacy badger is outdated though, not needed anymore if you have ublock origin
I have ublock origin and failed the tracker checks without privacy badger.
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Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.
IS YOUR BROWSER:
Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? ◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint
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Feels good man.
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Wow nice. Any opinions on how these fingerprinting evaluators compare?
EFF’s Cover Your Tracks:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Am I Unique?:
https://amiunique.org
Sad a pretty stock iPhone that’s blocking via some filterlists and using iCloud Private Relay (a “VPN”) is so detectable! Should be so many browsers appearing similar but there’s always this & that that mean I’m unique.
-my comment a month back & some discussion
I'm completely unique, both AmIUnique and the CreepJS test highlighted my installed fonts and two webcams (one of them is actually a virtual redirect for my primary webcam, since the drivers are DirectShow-based)
Would be interesting to see how my linux laptop performs, tbf it might be unique too considering it's a mbp 2012. I remember running into at least one website I visited on it showing much higher prices compared to when I revisited the same website later from my windows desktop...
Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 7748.22 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.92 bits of identifying information.
Using Arc on iOS.
| Blocking tracking ads? | Yes |
| Blocking invisible trackers? | Yes |
| Protecting you from [fingerprinting] | Partial protection |
pretty typical, not too bad if you aren't protecting your fingerprint with the noscript addon
Is that available on iOS?
I realise my options are limited on this platform.
noscript also exists on chromium, so if there a browser that supports addons on IOS it most prolly will have it. But I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't have noscript installed on my phone either for convenience sake
What are your browser config and settings? (Extensions, settings, about:config...)
Anyone know if its possible to change the HTTP_ACCEPT header in Firefox on Android? Apparently that alone is enough to uniquely identify me :(
I use "Mull" on android it is a firefox fork and is pretty much arkenfox mobile and more. You can try switching to that
I'm not sure if it's just me, but the page wouldn't load at all. I'm using pihole for network DNS blocking + privacy badger + noscript. Even when I allowed all the domains via noscript temporary trusting it just sat there and spun forever.
somewhat related, is there any way at all to enable high refresh rates while using resistFingerprinting, or something I could use instead of it? this is the only thing keeping me away from resistFingerprinting on Mull and Librewolf.
Ah so that's the reason that Mull is limited to 60 hz. Sorry I have no idea
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