A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
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https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
Anyone know if its possible to change the HTTP_ACCEPT header in Firefox on Android? Apparently that alone is enough to uniquely identify me :(
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 |
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...
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.
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privacy badger is outdated though, not needed anymore if you have ublock origin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.
You should include a hyperlink to the actual site in your post.
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