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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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[email protected] : What are the best ways to minimize fingerprinting on Firefox? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I did the tests on fingerprint.com/demo/ and https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and they both said I have a unique fingerprint, even when I enabled privacy.resistFingerprinting to True.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Use Tor Browser. Don't waste your life on micro-optimisation. You will get a lot more privacy with stuff like getting all your friends on Signal/SimpleX, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Use Tor.

Do you mean Tor Browser? Because using Tor alone won't stop fingerprinting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, edited.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You're absolutely right micro-optimization, I found that I did too much of that in 2022 and 23 and really cut down on that this year, I found that doing so is basically never worth it. I'm not gonna do that with privacy either, I'm focusing on what actions I can take that will make big improvements to my privacy rather than tweak every little thing.