• Viri4thus@feddit.org
    53·
    5 days ago

    If you have canvas randomisation turned on (firefox) you’ll always be unique but also not traceable between sessions.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
      4·
      4 days ago

      How do you turn on canvas randomisation in Firefox? I can’t seem to find anything about it.

      • Muehe@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 days ago

        I found this in about:config, defaults to true apparently: privacy.resistFingerprinting.randomDataOnCanvasExtract

        But you have to enable privacy.resistFingerprinting for it to work first. I enabled that and now the EFF test says “randomized” for the hashes but also Lemmy went from dark to light theme somehow.

        • perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks a lot more than just themes. Many of the weird problems reported in Firefox (and forks) are just from enabling it.

          It has some pros but also TONNES of cons. Everything from a completely blank page to wrong timestamps to poor textures and so much more. Sometimes you will be flagged as a bot and prompted with literally infinite puzzles, thus effectively banning you from a website.

          Some of these problems get fixed but new ones also get born. I personally use it but I also expect breakage and worse performance.

  • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
    171·
    5 days ago

    Am I wrong to assume trying to blend in is a worse and contradictory strategy than trying to actively protect yourself from tracking?

    If you want to not be unique, use default setting chrome without adblock. Your browser will look just like anybody else’s, but they will literally know who you are.

    On the opposite side of the spectrum, you lock everything down and spike as a very special browser and… that’s all they know.

      • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Not what I meant: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.3-Overrides-[To-RFP-or-Not]#-fingerprinting

        "If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. Here is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a 99.24% unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses).

        Changing a few prefs from default is not going to make you “more unique” - there is no such thing."

        Basically making yourself less unique is impossible so there’s no sensible tradeoff to be made (other than in the context of Tor and Mullvad Browser).

      • underwire212@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 days ago

        Right. The question is whether they can attach what they know to an identity. Depends on your threat model which goal you need to achieve.

    • ivn@jlai.luEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      But then they can know a lot more since they don’t even need to drop a cookie to track you. But that’s a different threat model.

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
        7·
        5 days ago

        …as long as you are blocking tracking cookies, and aren’t on a session with a website that’s tracking you.

        Otherwise, you just have a nice unique hash in your cookies. A password manager could help here.

  • JustVik@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    It constantly gives me 17.5 bits on several browsers firefox, nyxt, gnu icecat, librewolf…

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    24·
    5 days ago

    With browser settings that actually let me use the internet in a way that’s not overly cumbersome and annoying, I get 16bits or something and a “nearly unique fingerprint”

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      5 days ago

      Block any and all ads, then it doesn’t matter that they have your data if they can’t make money off of it (they still will do that by creating data aggregates but you can’t control that)

  • akkajdh999@programming.dev
    18·
    5 days ago

    "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,614 tested in the past 45 days.

    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.49 bits of identifying information."

    Chat am I cooked?

    • yonder@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      5 days ago

      Same result here. I’m using Gnome-web, which is already pretty niche, so that probably really lowers my score.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,951 tested in the past 45 days.

    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.49 bits of identifying information.

    well shoot my mobile failed that test lmao

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        I got exactly that number too, but also when I looked at the detailed results section lots of it was incorrect. It got that I was on some sort of Linux and using some sort of FF variant, but things like time zone, plugins, screen resolution and system fonts were all wrong.

        So sending out 17.49 bits of largely identifying bullshit is still okay I think lol.

    • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      4 days ago

      They probably give entropy value, average number of, yes or no, questions that are needed to identify You. (Guess all the information that your browser provided)

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    11·
    5 days ago

    Despite having strong protection according to these results, I always get unique fingerprinting from them. Which is scary.

    Edit: Now I tried Tor on my desktop and got:

    Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 628.7 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.3 bits of identifying information.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    10·
    5 days ago

    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 183,996 tested in the past 45 days.

    :(

  • mac@lemm.ee
    10·
    5 days ago

    Huh mullvad browser got me the lowest overall. 10.44 bits and a non-unique fingerprint.

    Compared against:

    • Firefox with arkenfox user.js (macOS)
    • Tor (macOS and android)
    • Vanadium (android)
    • Cromite (android)
    • Mull (different than mullvad) (android)

    I do a vast majority of my browsing on my phone, unfortunately. Vanadium scored the best (on mobile), but it not having extensions (dark reader is a must) and the navigation bar not being movable to the bottom of the screen keeps me on Mull.

    I don’t love using mullvad for day to day browsing as I can’t whitelist specific cookies to retain. Don’t love having to re 2fa daily.

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    16.47 on Cromite. But most of the identify information is not even true, almost everything is spoofed. User agent, timezone, operating system, browser name, screen size and color depth, device, even the battery percentage

  • eleitl@lemm.ee
    4·
    5 days ago

    Vanadium: Your Results Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 61101.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

    Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 15.9 bits of identifying information.